Humanism under attack
In the framework of cooperation of the Bertalanffy Center with the Centre of Social Ontology, one research project was finalised (Social Morphogenesis – the proofs of the 5th volume are currently verified) and a new one was commenced. During the first week of January, the same group of co-workers at the CSO, International Advisory Committee…
“Meaning“ did not emerge like a bolt from the blue
Recent literature suggests the appearance of information that is coupled to significance not only with the advent of biotic agents (“meaning” in living systems) but already with prebiotic environments, namely, with the existence of agents (non-living, physical systems) that – according to the fourth law of thermodynamics after Stuart Kaufmann – …
BCSSS Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner led the “Special Integration Group on Socio-Ecological Systems” during the ISSS 2016 in Boulder, USA
Once again Stefan Blachfellner, BCSSS Managing Director and leader of the BCSSS Research Group Socio-ecological Systems and Design, was head of the Special Integration Group on Socio-Ecological Systems during the 60th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences ISSS 2016 from 24th to 30th July 2016 in Boulder,…
Vienna 2016 | Hamid Ekbia | Computing and Capitalism: Dynamics of Systemic Change
The Research Group Emergent Systems, Information and Society invited Hamid Ekbia as keynote speaker for their meeting that took part in the framework of the emcsr avantgarde 2016 on 1 April, 2016. Hanid Ekbia – at his stay in Vienna being a Senior Fellow at the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) – is Associate Professor…
Emergent Systems, Information and Society Meeting
The Research Group Emergent Systems, Information and Society held a meeting in the framework of emcsr avantgarde 2016. Hamid Ekbia, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, held a keynote on the most recent phase in the co-evolution of computing and…
Vienna 2016 | Workshop | Systems Medicine | Systemökologie der Ernährung
Felix Tretter: „Systemökologie der Ernährung“ Am Donnerstag, den 31. März und Freitag, den 1. April 2016 fand im Department Sozialökonomie der WU Wien ein BCSSS Workshop des Arbeitsfeldes Systems Medicine statt, organisiert und geleitet von Felix Tretter (BCSSS). Diskutiert wurden Fragen zu Systemtheorie, Ernährungsökologie und Sozialökologie. Bei dem Workshop wurde…
Preconditions of a “good society”
The UK-based Centre for Social Ontology (CSO) held the fifth and last Morphogenetic Project workshop. Contributions to the final volume to be published in the Springer book series were discussed. The topic “Morphogenesis & Eudaimonia” comprised social science and humanities accounts of necessary and sufficient conditions of a “good society”. Jamie…
Theoria cum praxi et bonum commune (Leibniz): System theory, informatics and a wise society for all
Rathaus Tiergarten, Berlin-Moabit (photo: Wikimedia Commons) The Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (LS) invites the group “Emergent Systems, Information and Society” to present itself at a one-day colloquium of their two classes (Natur- und Technikwissenschaften; Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften). The group is a joint endeavour of the Arbeitskreis of the LS, the Research…
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