The new issue of the peer-reviewed, open-access Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, published with oekom by the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, is on “Climate-Neutral and…
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According to Peter Fleissner‘s model calculations of the epidemic in Austria, the start of a third wave can be seen (Before a third wave?). He describes the figure above as follows: So far, vaccination helps to dampen the exponential increase…
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On Monday, 15 March 2021, a press conference ushered in the awareness raising campaign for planetary solidarity, named after Edgar Morin‘s “Homeland Earth”. It was held by Gudrun Kramer, Director of the ASPR. She was supported by Werner Wintersteiner, retired…
Some time ago we announced the plans for a worldwide campaign to promote planetary awareness, supported by GSIS. Today, you can watch here Edgar Morin‘s appeal for the campaign (video). You can also read the Appeal for the Campaign in…
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie and Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie will hold a common congress at the WU Vienna on Post Corona Society, 23-25 August 2021 (online/hybrid). Sebastian Sevignani and Martin Seeliger will organise an ad-hoc group on the digital, structural…
Philosopher Günther Witzany was recently interviewed by Salzburger Nachrichten. He is an expert as to the place of viruses on Earth and he was asked also about COVID-19. This crisis – so Witzany – reminds mankind of taking an ecological…
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Based upon a project on Society After Money – A Simulation, funded by Volkswagen Foundation, the interdisciplinary research group will hold an online workshop on “envisioning post-capitalist societies via simulation“. The workshop will be held on 18-19 February, 2021, and…
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GSIS Member Yurii Mielkov’s paper From sustainable development to degrowth: philosophical and educational strategies for sustainability has now been published in the Ukrainian journal Philosophy of Education, 2020, 26 (1), 37-53. Yurii’s abstract is as follows: The article is dedicated…
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Information Management and Interdisciplinarity are two foundations of our modern society. The Iron Curtain fell in 1989 and as a consequence, academic institutions initialized cooperation between Austria and the Czech Republic. In 1992 an agreement on a cooperation between the…
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Christian Stary and Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski published an article in Leibniz Online 41 (2020) in which they argue for a new, constructive realism without which human-centred design of IT is not feasible. They write: It seems to be particularly important in…
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