Menschliche Natur- und Raumveränderungen vom Beginn der Geschichte bis heute
Siehe auch: https://gsis.at/2024/09/16/homo-destructor/
Wolfgang Hofkirchner archives (page 7)
“Solidarity” at the University of Paderborn
Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft (KriKoWi) writes: Our last annual conference, supported by the Ludwig-Delp-Foundation, took place from 19 until 21 September 2024 at the University of Paderborn, Germany. The topic: Solidarity. Here you find more information about it. Visit the site to screen the abstracts here.…
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“If it is midnight in the century”
Edgar Morin, Member of our Advisory Committee, published on 30 January 2024 an article* using the title of a book of Victor Serge that was published in 1939 when Hitler’s war was starting. This book described the midnight of the…
Media transformation and the challenge of property
Hendrik Theine and Sebastian Sevignani published a special issue of the European Journal of Communication (EJC) under that title. They write in the introduction: The special issue is part of a revived interest in property in the social sciences and…
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Homo destructor – Zerstört der Mensch immer und überall seine Umwelt?
GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on a Sustainable Planet in co-operation with the Club of Vienna We invite you to the following lecture and discussion (in German): Werner Bätzing: Homo destructor – Zerstört der Mensch immer und überall seine Umwelt? Hier die…
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5th anniversary of the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism
Hannes Werthner, the initiator of the Digital Humanism Initiative, invites to a panel discussion reflecting on the accomplishments and the future of the Digital Humanism Initiative. He writes: In 2019, TU Wien Informatics invited over 100 international scholars from a…
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New book on Radical Digital Humanism
This is the German version of Fuchs, Christian. 2022. Digital Humanism. A Philosophy for 21st Century Digital Society. SocietyNow Series. Bingley: Emerald. Its subtitle is “Eine Philosophie für die digitale Gesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts“, whereas the title prefixes the adjective “radikal” to…
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Solidarity, 2
Reminder of the upcoming 5th annual conference of Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft, 19-21 September 2024, University of Paderborn, Germany: The detailed programme is ready, you can find it here. Our Members Marisol Sandoval, Thomas Allmer, Christian Fuchs, Sebastian Sevignani, and our…
Current challenges to philosophical thinking
In an “ever-changing world”, thinkers are required to generate new visions embracing all “all aspects of the lifeworld – economics, socio- politics, culture, ecology, science and technology, etc.”. This is the thematic description of a pre-conference that was called for…
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Pope Francis on AI
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…