Featuring Achim Stephan (Philosophy of Mind and Cognition), Peter König (Neurobiopsychology), Peter Bosch (Linguistics), Oliver Vornberger (Computer Science), Sven Walter (Philosophy), Kai-Uwe Kühnberger (Artificial Intelligence), Thomas Gruber (Psychology), Joachim Hertzberg (Knowledge-based Systems), Gordon Pipa (Neuroinformatics), Nikola Kompa (Philosophy of Language), Gunther Heidemann (Computer Vision), Claus Rollinger (Artificial Intelligence)
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Documentary: What is Cognitive Science?
Great and entertaining 80-minute documentary by students of the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, neatly summarizing the historical and conceptual foundations of Cognitive Science.
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Los Cerveceros de Quilmes (via Vince)
Check out this great documentary "Los Cerveceros de Quilmes - die Bierbrauer aus Quilmes" directed by Andreas Geipel (Spanish with German subtitles). In 31 minutes it beautifully captures the passion for football - and particularly the "fanatic football folklore" as celebrated by the fans of Quilmes in Argentina.
Saturday, February 09, 2013
The sound of one hand clapping (Norman Palm - Easy)
Normal Palm's "Easy" gets to the heart of long-distance - and particularly intercontinental - relationships.
Some of his next live shows:
01-03-2012: Berlin, Germany, Schokoladen
21-05-2012: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nova Festival
24-05-2012: Sāo Paolo, Brazil, Nova Festival
29-06-2012: Berlin, Germany, Magnet Club
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Unline: Organize your inbox and simplify the internet
A little collection of tips or tools to master email and internet by organizing your inbox and simplifying your general internet usage:
- Leo Babauta on Simplify the Internet and his empty gmail hack
- Evernote Clearly, a chrome plugin to clean up your online reading
- Tech Therapy - Episode 102: Academics Struggle With Managing E-Mail (audio)
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Slavoj Žižek on Ecology as a Religion
As provoking and radical as ever: Slovene philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek on Ecology in an excerpt from the pop-philosophical documentary Examined Life (2008). Following the movie's subtitle "philosophy is in the streets", Žižek's agitation takes place in the midst of a North American dump.
Highlights:
There is no nature: Nature is not a balanced totality which then we humans disturb - nature is a big series of unimaginable catastrophes [and] we profit from that. (3:45)
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Ecology will slowly turn into the new opium of the masses [...] Ecology is more and more taking over this role of a conservative ideology. (5:11)
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We need more alienation from our life world [...] we should become more artificial. (8:57)
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To recreate--if not build--an aesthetic dimension in things like this, in trash itself - that's the true love of the world.
Because what is love? Love is not idealization. Every true lover knows that: If you really love a woman or a man, that you don't idealize him or her.
Love means that you accept a person with all its failures, stupidities, ugly points and nonetheless the person is absolute for you, everything that makes life worth living [...] You see perfection in imperfection itself - and that's how we should learn to love the world. True ecologists love all this [points to the pile of trash]. (9:37)
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