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Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture 2024

'The Urgency of Ethical Challenges Facing the World'

Presented by Professor Raimond Gaita

Introduction by The Hon. Barry Jones AC from Accountability Round Table:

Raimond Gaita (1946- ) is an outstanding, but controversial, moral philosopher who agonises over the state of the world. Born in Germany, son of Romulus Gaita, a Romanian metal worker, and Christine Dorr, a German teacher, his family migrated to Australia in 1950, and he grew up in central Victoria. Educated in Ballarat and Melbourne, he held chairs in moral philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and King’s College, London. His memoir Romulus, My Father (1998) won many awards and became an internationally admired film in 2007. Justice and Hope (2023) is an important collection of his writings.

An English philosopher wrote of him:

“Those who are already familiar with Raimond Gaita's work will not easily forget the seriousness with which he confronts his readers with stark examples of evil, and then with luminous examples of love and goodness – a confrontation that both elicits and challenges the real responses that give expression to our moral thinking, and a seriousness that exposes the shallowness of much moral theory and its remoteness from lived experience”.

Prof. Gaita: The most important moral challenges facing humanity, I believe, are the climate crisis, war in which nuclear weapons may be used, and the increasing fragility of democratic forms of government. I wrote the following in the preface to Justice and Hope:

"We have now far more reason to fear for the world than we had when I expressed that fear almost twenty years ago in an essay “Justice and Hope”. That is why I have dedicated the book that carries the name of that essay to my grandchildren, which, implicitly, is to all young people"

Within the book I wrote:

“More and more, I fear, knowledge of affliction and cruelty will test their understanding of what it means to share a common humanity with all the peoples of the earth, and to a degree almost too awful to imagine, their faith that the world is a good world despite the suffering and the evil in it. What can sustain that faith? I believe there are few questions more urgently in need of sober realism in their formulation and in the answers offered to them”.

Those questions continue to haunt me. The epigraph of Justice and Hope (2023) is a quote from Albert Camus: “I chose justice to remain faithful to the world.”

In this lecture, I will try to explain why of the many forms of justice, this is the deepest.

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here.

We meetthe founder and CEO of Kagi, Vladimir Prelovac, a subscription-based search engine that aims to prioritise user privacy and provide a more authentic…

Empty Innovation: What are we even doing?

The last decade was characterized by massively hyped technologies/companies who imploded without leaving much more than scorched earth. Why and how did we end up with so much Empty Innovation and what do these systems do to their users and developers? And how can we get out of that toxic loop?

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In her Booker-shortlisted novel '10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World', Elif Shafak entered the mind of a dying sex worker lying murdered in an Istanbul alley. The story moved from brutal realism to the magical world of the afterlife. Now Shafak has turned her attention to another part of the Levant region, and to another example of how someone’s memory can be kept alive by the people and things that surround them. 

'The Island of Missing Trees' is set in Cyprus, where two people from opposite sides of the country’s conflict fall in love. They meet secretly in a derelict taverna, their only witness a fig tree growing through the broken roof. Later, the couple take a cutting from the tree and smuggle it to their garden in London where it thrives and is loved by their daughter.

She in turn travels to the country to untangle some of the secrets and silences of her parents’ past. Always a joy to hear, Shafak shares her research into the surprising links between humans and the natural world with her usual insight and eloquence, in discussion with poet and author Lemn Sissay.

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[Recorded May 16, 2024]

Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. That can pose a risk to your privacy—even your safety. At the same time, big datasets could lead to huge advances in fields like medicine. In NOVA's Secrets in Your Data, host Alok Patel explores these issues on a quest to understand what happens to all the data we’re shedding and explores the latest efforts to maximize benefits—without compromising personal privacy.

Join the Computer History Museum for a screening of selected clips from Secrets in Your Data paired with a panel discussion featuring experts from the film.

NOVA's Secrets in Your Data premieres Wednesday May 15 at 9/8c on PBS. Check local listings for details. It is also available for streaming online via the PBS video app or the link below.

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Auteur en 1984 d’une thèse de doctorat sur « Les romans de Philip K. Dick », sous la direction de Fredric Jameson, peut-être le plus fondamental penseur de la SF contemporaine, il imagine entre 1984 et 1992 sa « Trilogie de la Côte Dorée », trois futurs possibles du Comté d’Orange, le territoire à la richesse la plus concentrée de tous les Etats-Unis.

Entre 1992 et 1996, il crée la « Trilogie martienne », formidable invention des 100 premières années de la colonisation humaine de la planète Mars, traitée comme un vaste roman choral aux péripéties constantes, mais abordant toutes les questions scientifiques, psychologiques, économiques, sociales et politiques qui accompagnent nécessairement un tel saut.

En 1997, il écrit « S.O.S Antarctica », suivi par la « Trilogie climatique » entre 2004 et 2007, formidable exploration de la relation complexe et ambiguë de la science, de l’économique et du politique à l’ère du réchauffement climatique.

Entre les deux, en 2002, il nous aura offert la monumentale « Chronique des années noires », peut-être la plus puissante uchronie jamais écrite, se proposant rien de moins que d’imaginer l’histoire de l’humanité jusqu’à aujourd’hui et un peu après, une fois que l’Occident a disparu au Moyen-Âge, lorsque la Grande Peste ne s’est pas contenté d’éliminer 40 % de la population, mais plutôt 99 %.

Il continue à interroger ce que peut la science face au politique avec « Le rêve de Galilée » en 2009, développe un système solaire multipolaire avec « 2312 » en 2012, plonge dans une préhistoire rusée et inhabituelle avec « Chaman » en 2013 et explore les mirages des exoplanètes et les beautés ambiguës de l’intelligence artificielle avec « Aurora » en 2015.

Revenant au climat contemporain, il en explore les arcanes financiers dans une New York envahie par les eaux avec « New York 2140 » en 2017, médite sur les possibilités de la Chine en matière de science et de politique avec « Lune rouge » en 2018, et enfin, nous offre une formidable synthèse provisoire de son œuvre avec « Le ministère du futur » en 2020, roman totalement polyphonique où s’expriment scientifiques, technocrates, simples humains mais aussi molécules ou mécanismes financiers, roman qui nous plonge, aux côtés d’une agence onusienne chargée des intérêts « théoriques » des générations à venir, dans le chaos d’une lutte désespérée, à la fois violente et méticuleuse, pour sauver l’humanité de la catastrophe annoncée.

Bibliographie de Kim Stanley Robinson

Les Romans de Philip K. Dick (1984)

Trilogie du Comté d’Orange :

Le Rivage oublié (1984)

La Côte dorée (1988)

Lisière du Pacifique (1992)

Les Menhirs de glace (1984)

La Mémoire de la lumière (1985)

A Short, Sharp Shock (1990)

Trilogie martienne :

Mars la rouge (1992)

Mars la verte (1993)

Mars la bleue (1996)

+ Les Martiens (nouvelles, 1999)

S.O.S. Antarctica (1997)

Chronique des années noires (2002)

Trilogie climatique :

Les 40 Signes de la pluie (2004)

50 degrés au-dessous de zéro (2005)

60 jours et après (2007)

Le Rêve de Galilée (2009)

2312 (2012)

Chaman (2013)

Aurora (2015)

New York 2140 (2017)

Lune Rouge (2018)

Le Ministère du Futur (2020)

Autres références utilisées

ESSAI : Robert Markley, Kim Stanley Robinson (2019)

ESSAI : Fredric Jameson, Le postmodernisme ou la logique culturelle du capitalisme tardif (1991)

ESSAI : Fredric Jameson, Archéologies du futur (2005)

ESSAI : Gérard Genette, Palimpsestes (1982)

ESSAI : Raymond Williams, Culture et matérialisme (1980)

ESSAI : Bruno Latour, La vie de laboratoire (1979)

ESSAI : Bruno Latour, La science en action (1987)

ROMANS : Robert Heinlein, Histoire du Futur (1939-1950)

ROMANS : Isaac Asimov, Cycle des Robots (1950-1985)

ROMANS : Isaac Asimov, Cycle de Fondation (1942-1992)

ROMANS : Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie humaine (1829-1850)

ALBUM : Martin Handford, Où est Charlie ? (1987)

ROMAN : Edward Abbey, Le gang de la clef à molette (1975)

ROMAN : Edward Abbey, Le retour du gang (1989)

ROMAN : Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia (1975)

ESSAI : Andreas Malm, Comment saboter un pipeline (2021)

RECIT : John Muir, Un été dans la Sierra (1911)

RECIT : Edward Abbey, Désert solitaire (1968)

ESSAI : Baptiste Morizot, Les diplomates (2016)

ESSAI : Baptiste Morizot, Manières d’être vivant (2020)

ESSAI : Bruno Latour & Frédérique Aït-Touati, Trilogie terrestre (2022)

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How did an unknown Marxist scholar sell half a million copies of a book about degrowth communism in his homeland of Japan? And why is a complete transformation of our economic life necessary to save the planet?  

Guest: Kohei Saito is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, and the youngest-ever winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize for scholarship in the Marxist tradition. His book is Slow Down: How degrowth communism can save the earth (Hachette Australia).

The United States Copyright Office and courts in many United States jurisdictions are struggling to address complex copyright issues related to the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Meanwhile, academic research using generative AI is proliferating at a fast pace and researchers still require legal guidance on which sources they may use, how they can train AI legally, and whether the reproduction of source material will be considered infringing. The session will include discussion of current perspectives on copyright and generative AI in academic research.

Jonathan Band, Counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance

Timothy Vollmer, University of California, Berkeley

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