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)

Hacking Language Learning: Benny Lewis at TEDxWarsaw

source: TEDxTalks  2013年05月15日
"Some people just don't have the language learning gene." To prove that this statement is patently untrue is Benny Lewis's life mission. A monoglot till after leaving university, Benny now runs the World's most popular language learning blog and is learning Egyptian Arabic which will be language number twelve, or maybe thirteen. But who's counting?