The book “Klimasoziale Politik” (climate social politics) takes a critical look at climate and social policy developments in Austria in recent decades. It shows that the climate crisis is also a social crisis: the advancing climatic changes primarily have a…
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“Responsibility to protect” (R2P) was introduced to justify “humanitarian interventions”. In view of the age of global challenges, Wolfgang Hofkirchner proposes a new concept: the responsibility to protect all of humanity from annihilism. Annihilism is the explicit justification or trivialisation…
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It is clear that systems sciences are expected to come up with analyses and recommendations how to solve the crisis in the implementation of an inclusive security architecture for Europe and the world. Francisco Parra-Luna, sociologist and systems thinker, co-ordinated…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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