When Pope Francis attended the G7 summit last month, he addressed the assembled country leaders with a speech on Artificial Intelligence, titled “An exciting and fearsome tool”, “concerning the effects of artificial intelligence on the future of humanity” as he…
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Our Member Jaime F. Cárdenas-García from USA wrote a probe for the Journal New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication which was recently accepted for print. This probe promotes the idea of a “syntactic touch” when exploring the origin of…
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In connection with the topic of our upcoming Utopia(s) Conversations on the film “End of Humanity” in a fortnight, two recent publications co-authored by our Member Yurii Mielkov from Ukraine shall be mentioned here. Abstract:The paper is dedicated to the…
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GSIS Co-Director Renate C.-Z.-Quehenberger received the 1st Prize of the Best Poster Award at this year’s Linnæus University‘s international conference on Quantum Information and Probability: from foundations to engineering (QIP24). Her topic was dedicated to the memory of Peter Weibel…
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Vangelis Papadomitropoulos held last semester two courses at Panteion University, Athens, Greece, on contemporary political philosophy: – Contemporary political theories (liberalism, Marxism, post-Marxism, post-Structuralism, the Commons)– Theories and concepts of freedom (negative and positive freedom, republican and agonistic freedom) He…
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Vangelis Papadimitropoulos co-authors with his colleague Giannis Perperides at Panteion University in Athens an open access article on the model of open cooperativism as a counter-hegemonic project to neoliberalism. Using the example of basic income, he continues his studies on…
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Our researcher Annette Schlemm published an article on “Der statistische Gesetzesbegriff in der Entwicklungstheorie” (The concept of statistical law in the theory of development). In the abstract she says: I would like to express my appreciation of the statistical law…
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Under that title, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and Mälardalen University held a course from 2 to 31 May 2024 at the TU Wien Informatics Doctoral School. She was again Guest Professor after 2023.
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GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on Meaningful Technology & a Convivial Society for All GSIS is organising a series of conversations in various formats that tie in with the themes of our Utopia(s) Reloaded Talks in October 2023. Our Utopia(s) Conversations will…
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The conference series on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability – continued at Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago de Chile, Chile, from 21 to 23 October – is held again in a hybrid format. The deadline for paper submission…
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