GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on a Sustainable Planetin 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 Vortragsankündigung:…
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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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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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The World Congress of Philosophy 2024 (1-8 August) Philosophy across Boundaries, hosted by the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, the biggest campus in Europe, and co-organized with the Italian Philosophical Society (SFI) and the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP),…
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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…
GSIS members Raffaela Giovagnoli, Renate C.-Z.-Quehenberger and Irena Mostowicz participated with a Round Table on “Habits, Rituals and Human Life“ at the XXV World Congress of Philosophy in Rome (Italy). Hosted by Sapienza University it went under the general theme…
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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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