Venice in Las Vegas
An American and European Auto-Socio-Biography, 1960s to 1980s
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Counterpoints, Volume 562
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Summary
As Donald Trump seeks to transform America, many people talk about wanting to leave the country. I left the USA several decades ago, yet I still love my homeland. I searched for dialog between Europe and America through the link between Venice and Las Vegas."
Through the mode of the auto-socio-biography, Shapiro's "Venice in Las Vegas" examines the cultural, political, technological events, and reaction of the media, that shaped the period of the 1960s through the 1980s across the United states and Europe. Shapiro weaves through this examination his personal experiences, engaging with writers such as Baudrillard, Camus, Auster, and others, whose work is so intricately tied to his own memories of that time.
Through the mode of the auto-socio-biography, Shapiro's "Venice in Las Vegas" examines the cultural, political, technological events, and reaction of the media, that shaped the period of the 1960s through the 1980s across the United states and Europe. Shapiro weaves through this examination his personal experiences, engaging with writers such as Baudrillard, Camus, Auster, and others, whose work is so intricately tied to his own memories of that time.
Details
- Pages
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783034358552
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783034358569
- DOI
- 10.3726/b22883
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2025 (September)
- Keywords
- memoir auto-socio-biography Venice Las Vegas Bologna gambling Jean Baudrillard Paul Auster Albert Camus simulation hyperreality media culture student movements France Italy Long Island gifted children 1960s 1970s blackjack roulette MIT Cornell NYU Judaism anarchism Marxism programming
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- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 20xx. xxx pp., num. ill.
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