Power and self-organisation
This is lifeWhat a fucked up thing we doWhat a nightmare come trueOr a playground if we chooseAnd I choose I Choose, The Offspring This is the motto of a dissertation thesis written by Evo Busseniers for the Doctor of…
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Future of society and humanism
On 11 February 2020, the iASK (Institute for Advanced Studies Köszeg) Research Group Human 2.0 invited to its second workshop in Köszeg, Hungary. Guest and keynote speaker was Wolfgang Hofkirchner. He was invited to give a talk on the concept…
“Industry 4.0”? – “Work 4.0”?
On 13 December 2019, the Emergent Systems Group organised as Arbeitskreis of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (LS) – in co-operation with the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW – University of Applied Sciences) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für…
Media of Transformation – Transformation of the Media
More than 120 scholars, journalists, and activists participated in the third Annual Conference of the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft (network for critical communication studies) from 21 to 22 November 2019 at the University of Leipzig, Germany. The network was founded among…
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Artificial Intelligence as wonderland
From 22 to 24 November 2019, the German Forum of Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) held its annual conference at the University of Bremen. The overall theme was Künstliche Intelligenz als Wunderland. The conference offered 11 plenary…
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Challenging Organisations and Society (COS) Conference 2019: The Art of Intelligence – Backbone of Digitization?
ARTificial 2019 in Linz at its Makerspace Grand Garage© aimed to bring together practitioners, researchers, and artists from different fields. About 60 participants joined the 3-day learning journey starting with interfacing digital production technologies and art, inspired by Johannes Braumann…
“Building up a Global Sustainable Information Society”: ICAI 2019 Madrid
The Second International Conference on Applied Informatics (ICAI) took place from 6 to 9 November 2019 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Campus Somosaguas, Spain. It was the first-ever conference with the title: Building up a Global Sustainable Information Society.…
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Human 2.0?
The Institute of Advanced Studies Köszeg (iASK), Hungary, hosts a research group “to shed lights on the frontiers of human and machine knowledge, and to initiate international discourse on the seething area of humanity in the digitally driven revolution” –…
What is truth?
Resuming our line of scientific research into issues of rational and irrational discourse, post truth, and populism (see 2017a, 2017b, 2017c, 2018), the Emergent Systems Group gathered with newly established working groups of the Leibniz-Society of Scholars on “Strukturwandel &…
Exploring what AI is, isn’t, could be, shouldn’t be, and how we’re different – IS4SI Summit Berkeley 2019
The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit – held every second year – took place at the University of California, Berkeley, June 2-6, 2019. It was organised by neuro-anthropologist Terrence W. Deacon from UC Berkeley. Keynote speakers…