October 2018 Culture and Society
Read the articles selected in October 2018
A matter of time
Source: The Guardian Weekly, 5 October
The idea of progress which lies on the building of Western civilization supposes an abstract and linear notion of time after an eschatological sense. Comparative philosophy helps to understand time in its spiritual dimension related with the humanity and the environment.
L’éducation rend-elle meilleur?
By Luc Ferry
Source: Le Figaro, 27 September
Great history shows every day that the advancement of knowledge does not correspond to the progress of the good. The skepticism which stems from here has ended up with contesting every form of authority. But education, if not authoritative, is still a good compass in the fake jungle.
L’arbre-monde
By Didier Jacob
Source: L’Obs, 11 October
This book by Richard Powers describes a dimension of life too poorly known: the green world, so indispensable to the Planet, is ruled by a principle more intelligent than the law of the strongest. Through a subterranean communication, trees do cooperate and are nourished by the light achieved by the tallest one.
Maniac is ambitious, unusual and totally empty
Source: The Economist, 24 September
This new series strives for entering into the labyrinth of the human mind, transforming a psychedelic game in a virtual scene, where the protagonists play with the most valuable ambition: to know ourselves. But the mystery remains, perhaps an algorithm or a metaphor, can better explain it.
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https://www.economist.com/prospero/2018/09/24/maniac-is-ambitious-unusual-and-totally-empty
Europe’s refugee crisis. Traumatised children fight to survive in hellish Lesbos camp
By Lorenzo Tondo
Source: The Guardian, 4 October
In the Moria camp, in Greece, live 3000 minors. They attempt every day to take their own life or harm themselves. The conditions of this “mental asylum” and the long wait for what politics and bureaucracy will decide on their life exacerbate their previous traumas. MSF is present and testimonies.
Darwin 2.0
By Richard Friebe & Sascha Karberg
Source: Der Tagesspiegel, 4 October
Darwin’s principle of evolution has been restyled with this year’s Chemie Nobel, assigned to three scientists that by gene-engineering viruses and bacteria for the production of new treatments, have harnessed the adaptability of living beings in natural processes.
“Ton père, c’est la technique, et ton parrain, c’est l’État
Source: Le Figaro, 2 October
If the culture takes off the biological father the exclusivity in his fatherly role, the technique, with the assisted reproduction, removes his memory, entrusting the law with deciding which is the interest of the child related to its father and its mother.
La banquette spatiale
By Ève Beauvallet
Fonte: Libération, 29 September
Chairs talk too. Light, portable and easily changeable, more than any other object of our furniture they tell our Great history. So also the collective imagination of our time is imprinted in the design and changes our relationship with space.
Forschung und Vertrauen
By Peter Strohschneider
Source: Der Standard, 17 September
Science is an ever more powerful technological weapon, a Pandora’s box that some try to easily delegitimize, some to transform in an absolute belief. Only an approach of distance and aware self-limitation can be faithful to the pact between research and society.
Jean-Francois Braunstein
By Alexandre Devecchio
Source: Le Figaro Magazine, 14 September
“La Philosophie devenue folle” by Braunstein, telling a historic case about the difference between sexual and gender difference, shows how theories give birth to absurd monsters when deprived of the attitude to considering the human being in one not to deconstruct specificity.
How technology is enabling new ways of writing
ByJoshua Polchar
Source: https://www.oecd.org/ , 17 September
The automation of writing is a change, whose reach goes far beyond the loss of jobs, involving our cognitive capabilities, the way of doing research and culture. Education systems must adapt to this anthropologic revolution.
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Wie wird man in der Mathematik zweimal berühmt?
By Markus Pössel?
Source: Die Frankfurter Allgemeine, 28 September
Sir Michael Atiyah, one of the greatest mathematicians of our times, already awarded with a Field title, at the last Heidelberg Laureate Forum has announced to have the solution of Riemann’s problem. But researchers’ careers don’t always follow the sorts of a Hollywood character.
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Allegati
- La banquette spatiale pdf
- “Ton père, c’est la technique, et ton parrain, c’est l’État pdf
- Darwin 2.0 pdf
- Europe’s refugee crisis. Traumatised children fight to survive in hellish Lesbos camp pdf
- Wie wird man in der Mathematik zweimal berühmt? pdf
- Jean-Francois Braunstein pdf
- L’arbre-monde pdf
- A matter of time pdf
- L’éducation rend-elle meilleur? pdf
- Forschung und Vertrauen pdf