The programme for our talks about the future of humanity has been finalised:“Utopia(s) reloaded: Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation”26-28 October 20234lthangrund, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien See the programme here. Since the entry and feeding is free and the locations…
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The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) calls for a paradigm change in the study of information at the Summit 2023 in Beijing, convened by the China Chapter of IS4SI. The message is: A physical approach is deemed…
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Annette Schlemm, our newest addition to the team of researchers, is preparing a book on “Climate Engineering”. The subtitle of the book is: “How we are technologically winning ourselves to death instead of revolutionising society”. The book will be available…
Under this title Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Professor of Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology and Professor of Computer Science at Mälardalen University, Sweden, affiliated to our Emergent Systems Group, will hold a lecture on 4 May 2023 at the TU…
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Edgar Morin’s most recent booklet on the wars (see here) has been translated by Werner Wintersteiner and Wilfried Graf. It is now available. Its price is € 14,00 (click here).
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In the aftermath of the glossaLAB project, a second international workshop will be held in Spain 2023 as sequel of the one held there in 2022. Time will be devoted to the discussion of INSIGHT as a follow-up project. See…
Before the turn of the millennium, French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin drew attention to the “Homeland Earth” of a common humanity.[i] However, such ideas no longer seem to play a major role in the new millennium, while a multiple…
After 2021 (see here) and 2022 (see here), the third conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability will be held at Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain, between the 18th and 20th of October 2023. It will…
Edgar Morin published a new book with a French publisher on 6 January 2023. It is about WW I and WW II, about wars after Nuremberg and, of course, about the war in Ukraine that has become a proxy war…
The IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information) Summit 2023 calls for a paradigm shift in the field of information. The most used paradigm so far is borrowed from physics, criticises Chinese scholar Yixin Zhong from the AI School…
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