Twiiter co-founder (Biz Stone) talks about technology in 2014

source: WithTheEconomist  2013年12月28日
The World In 2014, New York City (December 5th, 2013)

The way people use technology is changing fast. On the hardware side, Web-enabled and interconnected home appliances, the redundancy of keyboards, integration into our eyewear and clothing, speech recognition, and nanocomputing are about to alter our daily habits. At the same time, the speed of the internet and ease of mobile communications have transformed the way we consume media. How will people connect in 2014 and beyond?

Biz Stone, Co-founder, Twitter and chief executive, Jelly Industries
Martin Giles, US technology correspondent, The Economist

Crowd-sourcing - pioneer talks about technology in 2014

source: WithTheEconomist  2013年12月28日
The World In 2014, New York City (December 5th, 2013)

The way people use technology is changing fast. On the hardware side, Web-enabled and interconnected home appliances, the redundancy of keyboards, integration into our eyewear and clothing, speech recognition, and nanocomputing are about to alter our daily habits. At the same time, the speed of the internet and ease of mobile communications have transformed the way we consume media. How will people connect in 2014 and beyond?

Luis von Ahn, Founder and chief executive, reCAPTCHA and Duolingo
Martin Giles, US technology correspondent, The Economist

Colin Wilson (1931 - 2013): The High and the Low (Part 1 Complete) -- A ...

source: ThinkingAllowedTV  2013年12月15日
This is the full broadcast portion of the 88-minute DVD interview.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2cwils...

In this moving and profound program, Colin Wilson shares his personal struggle in dealing with states of panic and depression. His attempt to cope with these difficult experiences has led him to explore states of extreme lucidity and self-control.

Colin Wilson was one of the most prolific writers in the English language. His novels include The Mind Parasites, The Philosopher's Stone and Sex Diary of a Metaphysician. Other major works include A Criminal History of Mankind, The Occult, Mysteries, Religion and the Rebel, The New Existentialism, New Pathways in Psychology and The Outsider--his first and most famous book.

A Thinking Allowed program, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove

Graham Harman. Speculative Realism. 2013

source: egsvideo  2013年12月04日
http://www.egs.edu/ Graham Harman, American philosopher, talking about speculative realism, philosophy, natural sciences, fine art, correlational circle, object, plasma. In the lecture Graham Harman discusses the concepts of phenomenology, pre-socratics, quality, in relationship to Bruno Latour, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Heidegger, Whitehead, Deleuze, Meillassoux, focusing on surplus, materialism, idealism. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Graham Harman.

Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is a professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a contemporary philosopher of metaphysics, who attempts to reverse the linguistic turn of Western philosophy. Harman is associated with Speculative Realism in philosophy, which was the name of a workshop that also included the philosophers Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Quentin Meillassoux.

Central to Harman's philosophy is the idea that real objects are inexhaustible: "A police officer eating a banana reduces this fruit to a present-at-hand profile of its elusive depth, as do a monkey eating the same banana, a parasite infecting it, or a gust of wind blowing it from a tree. Banana-being is a genuine reality in the world, a reality never exhausted by any relation to it by humans or other entities." (Harman 2005: 74). Because of this inexhaustibility, claims Harman, there is a metaphysical problem regarding how two objects can ever interact. His solution to this problem is to introduce the notion of "vicarious causation", according to which objects can only ever interact on the inside of an "intention" (which is also an object).

His works include Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects (2002), Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures (2010), Circus Philosophicus (2010), Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (2012) and Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism (2013).

Sigrid Hackenberg. Reading Philosophy as Fiction. 2013

source: egsvideo  2013年12月19日
http://www.egs.edu/ Sigrid Hackenberg, philosopher and thinker, talking about the duplicity, philosophy, fiction, and language. In the lecture Sigrid Hackenberg discusses the concepts of knowledge, semiotic, symbolic, Hegel, in relationship to Susan Sontag, Freud, Agamben, Catherine Clément, Barthes, Foucault, focusing on captivation, poetics, and Julia Kristeva. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Sigrid Hackenberg.

Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa, Ph.D., was born in Barcelona, Spain, to German and Spanish parents. An interdisciplinary artist and philosopher based in New York, she is an Assistant Professor of Media Philosophy at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Wallis, Switzerland. Her scholarly research interests lie within Continental philosophy and feminism. Recent essays have focused on such topics as the philosophy of language, the act of reading and writing, and 'ethics as first philosophy.' She is the author of a forthcoming study on the writings of G.W.F. Hegel and Emmanuel Levinas(Atropos Press). A book focusing on the topic of language and the feminine is currently in preparation. Hackenberg y Almansa's latest video and sound installation, focusing on the subject of the Spanish Civil War and created in collaboration with Dolores R. A. Hackenberg, was recently commissioned by the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.

Sigrid Hackenberg is the author for Total History, Anti-History and the Face that is Other, "The Figure of Total History, the Sacred and Terror" in Stephen David Ross (Editor). International Studies in Philosophy (2007), she edited journals Poligrafi - Journal for Interdisciplinary Study of Religion (JISR). She did video and sound installations such as The Torture Series: The Abu Ghraib Portraits (2006), THIS MEANS YOU / Nazism, Holocaust, Resistance 1933-1945 (2003), ICH HEIßE (my name is) ROSA LUXEMBURG (2001), and The Time and The Place (1999)

Do "Digital Natives" Exist?

source: PBS Idea Channel 2013年12月11日
Is there such a thing as a "DIGITAL NATIVE"? Some experts have suggested a clear divide between "digital native" (the Millennial tech experts) and "digital immigrant" (older generations introduced to technology later in life). The young NATIVES have had technology change the way they think and the way their brain works, while older folk are stuck playing catch-up. But is that fair? Can someone innately understand technology? Is it even a good idea to define people as natives vs immigrants? Watch the episode and find out!

The Future City (by Professor Steve Rayner)

source: oxford  2013年12月13日
Professor Steve Rayner gives the inaugural Oxford China lecture: on The Future City. How can the city of the future be designed to build for the social and environmental challenges of the future, in particular climate change? What risks are there of 'lock-in', as we urbanise rapidly as a species?

A discussion on the themes of the 2013 Oxford China Lecture. Featuring Professor Steve Rayner (University of Oxford), Michael Ng (Foster + Partners), Professor Tang Zilai (Tongji Universiy), Paul Gao (McKinsey Hong Kong), chaired by Liu Haining (CCTV)

Manthia Diawara. Identity and Différance in Black Literature. 2012

source: egsvideo  2013年12月12日
http://www.egs.edu Manthia Diawara, Malian writer, cultural theorist and filmmaker, talking about identity politics and the philosophy of language within black literature. In this lecture, Manthia Diawara discusses African diaspora, the relationship between Africa and Europe, Deleuze's concept of the rhizome, the application of psychoanalysis to postcolonialism, feminist readings of Fanon and linguistics in post-structuralism and deconstruction in relationship to Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Maryse Condé, Homi K. Bhabha, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak and June Jordan focusing on African nationalism, the brics, black literature, the rapid development of technology, Francophone Africa, identity politics, alienation, dependency complexes, difference, the voice of the Other and the culture wars in the United States. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012. Manthia Diawara.

Manthia Diawara, Ph.D., (born 1953 Bamako, West Africa) is a writer, cultural theorist, film director and professor of comparative literature of Malian origin. After studying in Bamako, he went on to pursue studies in literature in France but completing his doctorate in 1985 at Indiana University in the United States, where he currently resides. Having taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara the University of Pennsylvania, Manthia Diawara went on to become a professor of comparative literature and cinema at New York University where he also heads the Department of African Studies and the Institute of African American Affairs. He teaches summer intensive courses at the European Graduate School and is the founder of the publishing house "Black Renaissance".

Manthia Diawara has produced and directed several documentaries, among them "Sembène Ousmane: The Making of African Cinema" (1994, in collaboration with Kenyan writer Ngûgî wa Thiong'o), "Rouch in Reverse" (1995) and Bamako Sigi-Kan (2003), an intimate look at his hometown. He has also written extensively on film and literature of the Black Diaspora. Some of his writings include African Cinema: Politics and Culture (1992), Black American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship (1993), In Search of Africa (1998), We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World (2004), Bamako-Paris-New York (2007) and African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics (2010).

Sara Boettiger on Re-Thinking Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Models ...

source: BerkmanCenter  2013年12月10日
The world faces a growing population, resource constraints, climate change, and a global food system under stress. But new technology is limited in its ability to address the problems facing those in poverty. 780 million still lack access to clean water. 1/5 of humanity lives without electricity. 80% of sub-Saharan Africa is farmed with a hand-hoe.

Sara Boettiger -- Senior Advisor at Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and Assistant Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley -- will discuss the need to re-think existing models of Intellectual Property Rights (e.g. patent pools, clearinghouses, humanitarian use licensing), re-invent our research agenda, and work to shift the international debate.

More info on this event here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/l...

Moving Illusions

source: Vsauce 2013年12月10日

Plato's cave analysis

source: zontulfilmsltd

what does Plato say in Book 7 of the Republic, details about the difference between True belief and True Knowledge in the Meno and the story of the slave boy in the Meno and Anamnesis

source: zontulfilmsltd
How to understand Plato. Animated analysis of Plato's cave in Book 7 of THE REPUBLIC with reference to the Meno (anamnesis and the discussion on the difference between true belief and true knowledge); the theory of forms. Other films in the series to be posted.

【大小創意】從典範轉移建立品牌自信 （修）

source: dxmonline  2013年12月01日
時間：2013/11/15 主辦：智榮基金會。主講人：姚仁祿（大小創意 創意長）
我們所熟知的世界變了，
過去二百年，
人類的價值觀，是什麼？
造成今日經濟的迷惘⋯政治的迷惘⋯
除此之外，
台灣近年主要問題是什麼？
知識份子不負責任，
讓台灣「媒體」提供國民：
－貧乏的「國際觀」⋯
－粗糙的「政經知識」⋯
－錯誤的「是非觀」⋯
－浮華的「價值觀」⋯

我們該怎麼辦？
從「典範轉移 」Paradigm Shift開始
是，「舊有思想」的破壞性革命⋯
是，「思考模型」的革命性轉變⋯
是，「價值觀」的革命性轉變⋯
是，需要「變革者」推動的思想革命⋯
（http://www.dxmonline.com)