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…
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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The 32nd Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks (IDIMT) took place 4 to 6 September 2024 in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Our Institutional Member, the Department of Systems Analysis of the University of Economics and Business, Prague, was represented by Petr Doucek…
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Bei der 7. Herbsttagung des Institut für Design Science in Wittenberg 2024 vom 30.08. bis 01.09., in der geschichtsträchtigen Leucorea, ging es im weitesten Sinne um die Naturphilosophie Schellings und Blochs. Im engeren Sinne gab es eine Vielfalt an Themen,…
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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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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…
