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»Critical Zones« Gespräch zum Film »Storytelling for Earthly Survival« mit Donna Haraway (Biologin und Wissenschaftshistorikerin), Bruno Latour und Peter Weibel

Die Ausstellung »Critical Zones – Horizonte einer neuen Erdpolitik« über die kritische Situation der Erde fällt durch die Corona-Krise in eine kritische Zeit. Eine neue Erdpolitik verlangt auch eine neue Ausstellungspolitik: Wir gehen auf Sendung!

Die wachsende Ausstellung im ZKM wird mit einer ebenfalls stetig wachsenden digitalen Ausstellung verbunden. Das Museum wird zum »home museum« mit einem virtuellen Begleitprogramm.

Am 22. Mai 2020 ab 18:00 Uhr eröffnet die Ausstellung mit einem mehrtägigen Streaming-Festival, das das Wochenende vom 22.–24.05.2020 umspannen wird. Das Programm besteht aus gestreamten Führungen durch den virtuellen Raum und durch die reale, jedoch nicht öffentlich-zugängliche Ausstellung sowie Interviews, Filmscreenings und Vorträgen.

Ausstellung am ZKM | Karlsruhe Sa, 23.05.2020 – So, 28.02.2021

https://zkm.de/critical-zones

00:00 Intro

04:11 "Wir müssen das Denken lernen"

08:29 Was ist das Terrestrische?

13:28 Die Kernfrage der Verwandtschaft ("Make kin, not babies")

20:56 Wie können wir uns Gaia annähern?

27:05 Die erweiterte Idee des Menschseins

32:05 "Das Ende der Geschichte"

36:23 Sind Metaphern neue Geschichten?

44:31 Wie unterscheidet man zwischen menschlicher Fürsorge und menschlicher Kontrolle?

48:25 Lässt sich der Klimawandel nur dich die Veränderung des Wirtschaftssystems aufhalten?

52:11 Outro und Danksagung Peter Weibel

59:22 Outro und Danksagung Bruno Latour

01:01:56 Kuratorisches Team

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»Critical Zones« Discussion on the Film »Storytelling for Earthly Survival« with Donna Haraway (biologist, philosopher, feminist), Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel

The exhibition »Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics« is about the critical situation of the Earth. Due to the Coronavirus it is also taking place at a critical time. A new Earth policy also requires a new exhibition policy: We are broadcasting!

The growing exhibition at the ZKM will be combined with a digital exhibition that will also grow steadily. The museum will become a »home museum« with a virtual accompanying program.

On May 22, 2020, from 6 pm CEST, the exhibition will open with a Streaming Festival lasting several days, which will span the weekend of May 22–24, 2020. The program will consist of streamed guided tours through the virtual spaces as well as through the real, but not publicly accessible exhibition, and will include interviews and lectures.

Exhibition at ZKM | Karlsruhe Sa, 23.05.2020 – So, 28.02.2021

https://zkm.de/en/critical-zones

Credits

Video production: ZKM | Videostudio

Camera: Xenia Leidig, Jonas Denzel, Christina Zartmann

Live Editing: Moritz Büchner, Andy Koch, Peter Müller

Live Sound Mixing: Philipp Kaminski

Moderation:

Dominika Szope, Barbara Kiolbassa, Anett Holzheid

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“Energy is general purpose freedom.”“The earth is in a void, every atom has to come from some place, and go somewhere.“Infrastructure might not be the first...

This week on Cyber Frontiers we jump into full coverage of the 6-day old public disclosures of the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities. With some issues...

Over the last few years, the idea of a carbon aware, fossil free internet by 2030, has become more than just interesting idea, and instead something that is socially and economically plausible, as well as desirable and inline with the latest climate science. In this talk we’ll cover some of the key drivers to make this possible, and what key policy changes can accelerate our transition from fossil fuels in the technology sector. We’ll cover some of the most promising ideas from the Internet Architecture Board’s recent workshops to explore how to reduce global ICT emissions inline with the science around staying within 1.5 degrees of warming. We'll give an overview of how new open source software like Ecovisors can do for on-site power what hypervisors have done for virtualisation of computing, how carbon-aware Computing schedulers and carbon aware networking routers can lead to an internet that can complement a shift to a grid powered by more variable renewable sources of energy, and we will also cover how a shift to hourly carbon accounting for electricity with new standards like Energy Tag’s Granular Certificates can cut through existing greenwash. Finally we'll talk about some of the the regulatory drivers on the horizon can help technologists argue for more ambitious climate action, from the European Corporate Social Responsibility Directive to recent changes in international accounting standards from the IFRS (international financial reporting standards) Foundation. Participants will leave with a good grounding of the progress made in the Greening of IT, the challenges facing us for the rest of the decade, and better idea of their role in the coming energy transition, particularly in the tech sector.

Part Two of "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hooper at NSA in 1982.

Part One of "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hooper at NSA in 1982.

Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2013

More info and slides on the website: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2013/talks

Software is difficult because the parts don't fit together. Why is this? Can we do anything about this? And what's this got to do with Erlang? Come to my talk and you'll find out!

Recorded on March 19, 2021, this video features a lecture by Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom and To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism.

ABSTRACT

One of Friedrich Hayek's most celebrated essays — "Competition as a Discovery Procedure" (1968) — tells us tantalizing little about the existence of other such procedures. Hayek's insistence that competition is the surest and most reliable technique of eliciting innovation is well reflected in today's digital landscape, dominated as it is by digital platforms, with their stated goal of facilitating market exchange. Yet, beyond Hayek's favorite bugbear of central planning, there surely must be other ways of "discovery" — even if they do not currently "scale" as well as the techniques of competition. This talk will explore the intellectual and political benefits of placing "discovery" at the center of our debate about the future of the digital public sphere and suggest potential directions for adequate policy-making on the issue.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything, Click Here (2013). He is also the founder and the publisher of The Syllabus, a knowledge curation initiative. He holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University.

This lecture is presented as part of the SSRC-sponsored research initiative, "Solidarity and Strife: Democracies in a Time of Pandemic,” co-organized by the UC Berkeley D-Lab and Social Science Matrix. This event was also co-sponsored by the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group.

For more information, visit https://matrix.berkeley.edu/initiatives/overview/solidarity-and-strife-democracies-time-pandemic.

Jennifer Lin, Cameron Neylon, and I proposed The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) almost a decade ago. We drafted these principles because we were frustrated that the research community always seemed surprised when commercial organizations enclosed critical research tools that were once considered “open.” We wanted to provide the community with a set of guidelines to help them avoid such enclosures in the future. In short, we wanted to provide the community with a set of heuristics to help them distinguish “open” from “fauxpen.”

Since then, over X organizations have publicly adopted POSI and have committed to periodically auditing themselves against the principles. This so-called “POSI posse” comprises organizations representing a critical part of the hidden infrastructure that scholarly research depends on daily.

So we’re safe, right?

You can probably guess the answer.

In this talk, I will discuss POSI’s limitations and the risks associated with the self-auditing culture that has developed around them. I will also discuss recent developments in the community that threaten to slow or even roll back the adoption of open scholarly infrastructure.

Finally, I’ll call out a few critical infrastructure organizations that appear reluctant to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure.

Speaker

Geoffrey Bilder, Freelance, Louche Cannon

On November 6th, 2010 a panel of renowned scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals gathered to discuss what impact evolutionary theory and advances in neuroscience might have on traditional concepts of morality. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral judgment, can scientists determine what is, in fact, right and wrong? The panelists were psychologist Steven Pinker, author Sam Harris, philosopher Patricia Churchland, physicist Lawrence Krauss, philosopher Simon Blackburn, bioethicist Peter Singer and The Science Network's Roger Bingham.