technology Archives

Man is like a flower

Steffen Moestrup / March 4, 2020

TECHNOLOGY: We live in MODERN TIMES where artificial intelligence evolves on its own and can become our rescue, not our death.

AlphaGo, Anthropocene, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, Gaia theory, Google's, IBM's, microorganism, Novacean, technology, Terminator

The painful destiny of the Tamils

Dieter Wieczorek / March 3, 2020

CONFLICT: The never before told story of Sri Lanka’s Tamil women fiercely fighting for their sovereignty.

Agnieska Zwiefka, Agnieszka Zwiefka, Aman Paksa, civil war, conflict, Indonesia, Kacper Czubak, Klaus Kinski, Malinda Rajapaksa, Mentawai Islands, NITO, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, philanthropist, Scars, Sri Lanka, Stefan Kloos, surveillance, Tamil, Tamil Tigers, technology, Werner Herzog

The shaman and the Norwegian engineer

Ellen Lande / February 25, 2020

MODERNITY: The expectation of a paradise free of modern progress become the opposite.

Aman Paksa, Audun Amundsen, Christian Falch, HUMAN idff Oslo, Indonesia, Klaus Kinski, Mentawai Islands, modernity, Newtopia, NITO, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, philanthropist, technology, Werner Herzog

Sundance 2020: The promise and pitfalls of technology

Harriette Yahr / February 13, 2020

TECHNOLOGY: Sundance 2020 featured several films with tech at their center.

Chasing Ice, CPH:DOX, Facebook’s, Jeff Orlowski, saudi arabia, Saudi Runaway, Silicon Valley, Sundance, Susanne Regina Meures, technology, The Social Dilemma

TECHNOLOGY: This chilling and critical AI-documentary almost succumbs to the dark fascinations it depicts, leaving a strong and unsettling impression of nascent digital powers outgrowing human control.

ai, Artificial Curiosity, artificial intelligence, Astra Film Festival, Cambridge Analytica, drone, General Artificial Intelligence, HUMAN idff Oslo, IDFA, iHUMAN, Ilya Stuskever, Jonathan Borge Lie, Jürgen Schmidhüber, Michal Kosinski, One World CZ, Play Again, Prague, Project Maven, technology, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Tonje Hessen Schei, Westworld

Intelligent care for a world in disorder

Anders Dunker / January 2, 2019

PHILOSOPHY: The central argument in The Neganthropocene is that the world is at risk of lapsing into a nihilistic state, as our failure to care for it becomes ever more manifest. But the challenge Stiegler takes upon himself is to show the way to an alternative anthropology.

activists, Alan Greenspan, Amartya Sen, Anthropocene, Ars Industrialis, Bernard Stiegler, Claude Lévi-Strauss, climate change, collective, consumption, control, Daniel Ross, death, Democratic, digitalised, economical, ecosystems, Entropy, Erwin Schrödinger, Facebook, Facebook-feed, financial, financial crisis, human, humankind, individuals, Institut de recherche et d'innovation, intellectuals, judgement, knowledge, life, Marx, negentropy, Nietzsche, nihilism., nihilistic, paris, philosophy, Plaine Commune, Pompidou, responability, self-governance, Silicon Valley, Social media, society, stupidity, technical, techniques, technology, The Neganthropocene, toxic, Tristes Tropiques, wisdom, world

More than human

Truls Lie / November 11, 2018

ENVIRONMENT: Peter Mettler is known for his intuitive and experimental film making. The new film Becoming Animal has also an ecological and philosophical depth, as it involves the Canadian philosopher David Abram.

animism, Arne Næss, Becoming Animal, Buddhist, camping, Canada, Canadian, collaborators, Cosmology, David Abram, Docudays UA, ecopsychology, ecosystem, elk, Emma Davie, environment, experiment, Gambling, geology, Global Justice, Gods and LSD, Grand Teton, Greenpeace, human world, IDFA, India, intellect, Modern Times Review, Peter Mettler, Petropolis, philosopher, physicist, Picture of Light, producers, psychiatrist, Scottish, seminar, Statoil, Switzerland, technology, Tectonic Plates, The Spell of the Sensuous, theatre, University of Oslo, USA, wilderness, wildlife, Wyoming

Life without thought

Bianca-Olivia Nita / May 19, 2018

A past to present look at big tech’s influence over society and how we can fight their pervasive power.

Facebook, Franklin Foer, Google, ideas, information, internet, journalism, logic, market, philosophy, technology

The devil is in the distractions

Steffen Moestrup / March 5, 2018

Solitude is an occasionally interesting reflection on the many qualities of loneliness in a time where we’re almost always connected with others.

life, solitude, technology, time

Power in the age of impotence

Anders Dunker / March 5, 2018

Franco Berardi suggests to us a new activism – not through revolutionary changes, but through a systematic effort to develop a humane and free society.

Berardi, capitalism, community, cultural revolutions, Excerpts, future, Homo economicus, knowledge, technology, VersoLongRead

Technology and Crime Prevention

Sverre Sand / March 5, 2018

Pre-Crime addresses different facets of crime prevention work based on statistics, from the police to social sciences, via technological conditions, to practice and effect.

Matthias Heeder, Matthias Heeder & Monica Hielscher, Monica Hielscher, Pre-Crime, technology

Artificial intelligence

Truls Lie / March 5, 2018

Totalitarian? At the Partner Forum in Oslo, we got to learn that Orwell was wrong.

artificial intelligence, intelligence, monitoring, Oslo, Partner Forum, technology, totalitarian, youtube