Call for papers! International Conference of the System Dynamics Society 2020, Norway
The System Dynamics Society calls for your participation in the 38th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society 19 – 23 July 2020 Bergen, Norway Hindsight in 2020: Learning from the Past to Inspire the Future The 38th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society will honor the 20th anniversary…
Lecture and Discussion with Cadell Last on Global Brain Singularity: Universal history, future evolution and humanity’s dialectical horizon
On September 25th close to thirty people, at the BCSSS and in the online live webcast, attended Cadell Last’s lecture on his PhD thesis, his “life time project”, which he presented for the very first time in a public event. Stefan Blachfellner, Managing Director of the BCSSS, welcomed the large…
Global Brain Singularity: Universal history, future evolution and humanity’s dialectical horizon
We invite you to join us at the BCSSS, Paulanergasse 13, 1040 Vienna, on Tuesday September 25th, 2018 at 5pm (with a follow up conversation until 7pm) to meet with Cadell Last, PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. If you can not attend his talk in Vienna, we also…
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…
Vienna 2013 | Ludwig von Bertalanffy Symposium
“Emergence: System – Evolution – Information” was the title of the second LvB Symposium held by our Center. It was organised in co-operation with the Austrian Computer Society Working Group Information Studies. About 25 guests attended the symposium which took place from 5 to 6 December. This time five experts…
Mechanisms as causes for societal development
Social scientists are inclined to talk of social “mechanisms” to designate that which brings about effects in the course of development. “Mechanisms” are the causes for the reproduction of society and its transformation as well. However, “mechanisms” are not strictly deterministic as mechanical causations might be. They depend on the…