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Venice in Las Vegas

An American and European Auto-Socio-Biography, 1960s to 1980s

by Alan N. Shapiro (Author)
©2025 Monographs 290 Pages
Series: Counterpoints, Volume 562

Summary

“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, and 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 his personal experiences into the investigation, 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
290
Publication Year
2025
ISBN (PDF)
9783034358552
ISBN (ePUB)
9783034358569
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034362474
DOI
10.3726/b22883
Language
English
Publication date
2025 (October)
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
Published
New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2025. 290 pp., 3 b/w ill., 51 color ill.
Product Safety
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographical notes

Alan N. Shapiro (Author)

Alan N. Shapiro, media theorist, is the author of the books: Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance (2004), Software of the Future (2014), and Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction (2024). Alan taught at universities in Essen and Lucerne and currently teaches at the Bremen Art University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oldenburg.

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