Jeremy J. Shapiro

Jeremy J. Shapiro (born 1940), is an American academic, educational performance artist, translator, and activist.

He is professor emeritus at Fielding Graduate University and works in the area of critical social theory with emphasis on the social and cultural effects of information technology and systems, social change, and the aesthetics of music.

His main intellectual products/innovations include

In addition he works in the following areas: the sociology of digital simulation and of on-line environments; the experience of multiple identities and multiple realities among users of information and communication technologies; and enhancing the experience of music listening.

He has worked as a computer programmer/analyst, as a director of academic computing and networking, and as a computer journalist.

At Fielding Graduate University he is also senior consultant for academic information projects.

After graduating from the High School of Music and Art in New York City, where he studied bassoon and conducting, he studied at Harvard with Robert Paul Wolff and Barrington Moore Jr..; at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main with Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas; at Brandeis University with Maurice Stein and Kurt H. Wolff; and at the City University of New York with Abbe Mowshowitz.

He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis in 1976.

Through his translations he introduced Habermas's work (Toward a Rational Society and Knowledge and Human Interests) and Marcuse's early work (Negations) to the English-speaking world.

He has been corresponding editor for the journals Theory and Society and Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie and also writes cultural criticism and reviews.