On the occasion of the 2025 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI), our Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group – which is also an IS4SI Special Interest Group – invites to an event to…
Edgar Morin, Member of our Advisory Committee, published on 30 January 2024 an article* using the title of a book of Victor Serge that was published in 1939 when Hitler’s war was starting. This book described the midnight of the…
Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation Date: 26-28 October 2023 Venue: 4lthangrund, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien Organisation GSIS in co-operation with partners:Club of ViennaDegrowth ViennaDFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit”, Universität Hamburg (DFG-KFG)Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF)Fridays for Future…
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Three intense days, over 70 of active participants, guests from all continents: this is the result of UTOPIA(S) RELOADED organised by #GSIS on 26-28 October in Vienna. We aimed to create an inclusive and diverse platform for scholars, experts and…
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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On 23 April 2023, our Institute has resumed its in-person discussion meetings in Vienna (which were paused due to the pandemic) with a small roundtable. Wolfgang Hofkirchner introduced his recent book publication “The Logic of the Third”. A handout showed…
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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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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…
“It is 100 seconds to midnight.”* Concerned scientists had set the doomsday clock at that time even before the hostilities in Ukraine escalated into one of the hot spots of “World War III” – as Pope Francis used to call…
The book is out. Find it here. Let me announce it: I finished the manuscript of my book before the new cold war turned hot, pushing humanity to the brink of a World War III. The heating of the planet,…
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