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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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