Before the turn of the millennium, French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin drew attention to the “Homeland Earth” of a common humanity.[i] However, such ideas no longer seem to play a major role in the new millennium, while a multiple…
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The annual Institute activities report has been published. You find it on our research page here.
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Mark was an extreme scientist. He has written more than thousand publications in different fields of science, has held many positions and was not afraid to take on work. When he joined our institute, he did not want to become…
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After 2021 (see here) and 2022 (see here), the third conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability will be held at Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain, between the 18th and 20th of October 2023. It will…
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Under that title – in short: “CollabEcon” – our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos is working on a project supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation. The objective is to explore the potental of social as well as technological innovation…
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Our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos has published a book:
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A book on degrowth has been published. The book is a project of Degrowth Vienna as a follow up to the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020: Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation. It covers 19 chapters by over 50 authors on more than 400 pages. Degrowth…
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Edgar Morin published a new book with a French publisher on 6 January 2023. It is about WW I and WW II, about wars after Nuremberg and, of course, about the war in Ukraine that has become a proxy war…
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The IPPNW invites to an online hearing on combat drones. The focus will be on recent developments in Africa, Ukraine and Turkey. The event will take place on 25 January 2023, 19:00 CET. You can register here. Language mostly German.…
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The IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information) Summit 2023 calls for a paradigm shift in the field of information. The most used paradigm so far is borrowed from physics, criticises Chinese scholar Yixin Zhong from the AI School…
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