This book tries to flesh out the second convivialist manifesto of the year 2020 and to imagine a post-neoliberal and post-growth future – “one that is attractive to an Italian worker, a Spanish peasant, a farmer in Senegal, an inhabitant…
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The proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Information Summit in 2021 are available open access. Read the editorial by Marcin J. Schroeder and Mark Burgin. Browse the contributions to APC Philosophy and Computing DIGHUM Workshop on Digital…
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This fourth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society book series outlines the theoretical foundations of digital fascism and presents case studies of how fascism is communicated online. Each chapter focuses on a particular dimension of digital fascism or a…
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The journal FIfF-Kommunikation 4/2021, edited by our German friends organisation Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF), contains a 20 pages supplement with the title “Künstliche Intelligenz zieht in den Krieg” (AI goes to war). Emergent systems group…
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This book, edited by Pieter Verdegem from the University of Westminster, is published open access and available here. It brings together critical interrogations of what constitutes AI, its impact and its inequalities in order to offer an analysis of what…
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In the framework of the joint Congress of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie and Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie at the WU Vienna on Post Corona Society, 23-25 August 2021 (online/hybrid), Sebastian Sevignani and Martin Seeliger organised an ad-hoc group on the digital, structural transformation of the…
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Rainer E. Zimmermann guest-edited a special issue of philosophies. He writes: For more than a century, the idea that the universe is lavishly filled with a multitude of living structures was a straightforward theoretical consequence of the Cosmological Principle within…
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Edgar Morin‘s most recent article shows, in a nutshell, his convincing view of the human condition and its current scientific-technological-economic development. Click here to get to the newspaper’s site (article in German). Marc Humbert and Frank Adloff from the Convivialist…
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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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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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