[resource-net] Fwd: Lecture: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. Big Data, 28 Apr, 19:30.

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From: Diana McCarty <diana.mccarty at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:43 PM
Subject: Fwd: Lecture: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. Big Data, 28 Apr, 19:30.

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28 APRIL 2014. LECTURE: VIKTOR MAYER-SCHÖNBERGER. BIG DATA
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/583/
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How can we spot a disease 24 hours before symptoms appear? How can we
predict which manholes in New York City may explode next year? Can we
really identify criminals before they have committed a crime? Welcome to
“big data” — the idea that we can do with a vast amount of data
things that we simply couldn’t when we had less. The change in scale
leads to a change in state. It upends the nature of business, how
government works and the way we live, from healthcare to education. Big
data will even change how we think about the world and our place in it. As
we collect and crunch more data, the good news is that we can do
extraordinary things: fight disease, reduce climate change, and unlock
mysteries of science. The bad news is that it raises a host of worries for
which society is unprepared. What does it mean if big data denies us a
bank loan or considers us unfit for a surgical operation, but we can’t
learn the explicit reasons because the variables that went in were so
myriad and complex? How do you regulate an algorithm?

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Professor of Internet Governance and
Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute / Oxford University. In
addition to his recent international bestseller "Big Data" (co-authored
with Kenn Cukier), Mayer-Schönberger has published eight books (including
the awards-winning "Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age"
with Princeton University Press) and is the author of over a hundred
articles and book chapters on the information economy. After successes in
the International Physics Olympics and the Austrian Young Programmers
Contest, Mayer-Schönberger studied in Salzburg, at Harvard and at the
London School of Economics. In 1986 he founded Ikarus Software, a company
focusing on data security and developed the Virus Utilities, which became
the best-selling Austrian software product. He was voted Top-5 Software
Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and Person of the Year for the State of
Salzburg in 2000.

The lecture is part of the ICI Lecture Series Constituting Wholes II
(November 2013-July 2014).

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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5 MAY 2014. LECTURE: ANKE TE HEESEN. THE WHOLE AND ITS PARTS IN THE MUSEUM
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/570/
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Museums – like archives and libraries – are widely seen as central
agents of knowledge that create order out of the endless jumble of things
through classification, preservation and arrangement. New museological
approaches, aided by new technologies of presentation, refrain from
classifying the corpus of objects, and present them instead in their
numerical richness and disparateness without embedding them in an
overarching hierarchy. Te Heesen will argue that recent installations at a
number of museums evoke amazement, reverence and fascination, but –
unlike systematizers since the 18th century – no longer confront the
viewer with a hierarchical classification. Instead, visitors are presented
with the mass of objects alone. Where does that leave us?

The lecture is part of the ICI Lecture Series Constituting Wholes II
(November 2013-July 2014).

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9-10 MAY 2014. EXTERNAL (PARIS): PIER PAOLO PASOLINI BETWEEN
REGRESSION AND FAILURE
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/595/
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s vehement attack on contemporary liberal and
hyper-technologized Neocapitalism was related to a criticism of
rationalism and its socio-political as well as linguistic and aesthetic
manifestations. The hypothesis that this conference aims at exploring is
that such criticism draws on two central notions in Pasolini’s work,
namely regression and failure. To what extent does Pasolini appropriate
and revalue these notions and transform them into indispensable modes for
(re)thinking the present and for continuing to be critically engaged in
the artistic, intellectual and political sphere?
A cooperation between the Equipe Littérature et Culture Italiennes (ELCI,
EA 1496) de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, ICI Berlin and l’Università
degli Studie Guglielmo Marconi, with the support of l’École doctorale
IV et du Conseil Scientifique de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne.

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11 MAY 2014. LECTURE: GERHARD DAHL. PHANTASIE ODER REALITÄT?
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/593/
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22. Karl-Abraham-Vorlesung

Verführung von Kindern und sexueller Mißbrauch führen zu ernsten
psychischen Erkrankungen. Neurotische oder sogar psychotische Symptome
können die späte Folge sein. Sie lassen aber in der Regel keine
Rückschlüsse auf die dramatischen Ereignisse zu, durch die sie
ausgelöst worden sind. Spätere Berichte von Mißbrauchs-Opfern werfen
daher oft die Frage auf, ob die erinnerbaren Übergriffe auf realen oder
lediglich auf phantasierten Traumata beruhen. Eine heikle Frage auch für
die Psychoanalyse: Wie lässt sich wissenschaftlich nachweisen, dass
allein schon phantasierte Traumata krank machen können? Liefert die bis
heute weitgehend akzeptierte Libidotheorie einen wissenschaftlich
gültigen Erklärungshintergrund? Und hat sich die psychoanalytische
Theoriebildung inzwischen über den klassischen Denkansatz von Sigmund
Freud hinaus weiterentwickelt? Welchen Beitrag hat einer seiner engsten
Mitarbeiter, Karl Abraham, dazu geleistet? In seinem Vortrag wird Gerhard
Dahl diesen und weiteren Fragen nachgehen.

Eine Veranstaltung des Berliner Psychoanalytischen Instituts
(Karl-Abraham-Institut) in Kooperation mit dem ICI Berlin

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12 MAY 2014. JASBIR PUAR: BODIES WITH NEW ORGANS. BECOMING TRANS,
BECOMING DISABLED
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/559/
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In this talk Jasbir Puar historically situates the most current
intersectional flavours of the day, ‘trans’ and ‘disabled’, which
both come into being, or becoming, in the early 90s in the academy as well
as in broader political terms and movements. She looks at how their
parallel yet rarely intersecting epistemological constructs require
exceptionalizing both the trans body and the disabled body in order to
convert the debility of a non-normative body into a form of social and
cultural capacity, whether located in state recognition, identity politic
formations, market economies, the medical industrial complex, or subject
positioning. Puar argues that the potential politics of trans disability
are seemingly only perceived in terms of the intersectional
‘trans-disabled subject’ or the ‘disabled trans subject’. Using
assemblage theory to advance the relationships between trans and
disability beyond an intersectional rubric of subject identification, she
elaborates a politics of conviviality through engagements with the
medicalization of the body that might de-exceptionalize the transgressive
tendencies of trans and disabled in favour of a shared politics.

The lecture is part of the ICI Lecture Series Constituting Wholes II
(November 2013-July 2014).

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15-17 MAY 2014. CONFERENCE: GENERISCHE FORMEN. DYNAMISCHE
KONSTELLATIONEN ZWISCHEN DEN KÜNSTEN
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/596/
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Jahrestagung des SFB 626 „Ästhetische Erfahrung im Zeichen der
Entgrenzung der Künste“

Die Tagung möchte den Begriff der generischen Formen einführen und
diskutieren, um einem Dilemma der ästhetischen Theoriebildung zu
begegnen: Wenn in der ästhetischen Theorie die Frage nach der Form
gestellt wird, dann wird diese häufig in Opposition zur Dynamik
erläutert. Eine solche Gegenüberstellung allerdings ist problematisch,
wenn man Phänomene der Übertragung – etwa von Narrativität in der
Musik oder musikalischer Wiederholungen im Film – in Betracht zieht.
Fälle, in denen Form und Dynamik verschränkt sind, bedürfen eines
Begriffs, der diese Opposition überschreitet und auf eine innere
Bewegtheit der Form selbst angelegt ist. Der Begriff der generischen
Formen, der systematisch auf einer Ebene zwischen dem besonderen Kunstwerk
und der Gattung situiert ist, zielt darauf die Dynamiken zwischen den
einzelnen Künsten beschreibbar zu machen.

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17 MAY 2014. EXTERNAL (MILANO): GRAGNOLATI, GRIECO, LINGIARDI. AMOR CHE MOVE
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/592/
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Presentazione del libro ‘Amor Che Move. Linguaggio del corpo e forma del
desiderio in Dante, Pasolini e Morante’ di Manuele Gragnolati. Agnese
Grieco e Vittorio Lingiardi dialogano con l’autore.

Come si intrecciano corporeità, desiderio e linguaggio nell’opera di
Dante, Pier Paolo Pasolini ed Elsa Morante? E qual è la forma che la
soggettività prende nel testo letterario? Diffrangendo la filosofia e la
poesia del medioevo con il pensiero femminista e queer contemporaneo, il
libro di Manuele Gragnolati getta nuova luce sul significato e
sull’estetica dell’opera di Dante e dei due grandi autori del
Novecento.

In cooperazione con il Saggiatore nel contesto dello spettacolo Addèla
Ole! (
http://www.elfo.org/stagioni/20132014/addelaole.html ) di Agnese Grieco,
cominciato all'ICI Berlin e in scena al teatro Elfo Puccini di Milano dal
5 al 25 maggio 2014.

Sabato 17 Maggio, Ore 17.00
Teatro Elfo Puccini (
http://www.elfo.org/spettacoli/addelaole/20132014/eventi/amorchemove.html
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c.so Buenos Aires 33 - Milano

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RECENTLY PUBLISHED
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BOOKS
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Wendy Brown / Rainer Forst: The Power of Tolerance. A Debate.
( https://www.ici-berlin.org/publication/574/ ) Ed. by
Luca Di Blasi and Christoph F. E. Holzhey (Wien/Berlin: Turia + Kant,
2014)

Multistable Figures. On the Critical Potentials of Ir/Reversible
Aspect-Seeing. (
https://www.ici-berlin.org/publication/573/ ) Ed. by Christoph F. E.
Holzhey (Wien/Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2014)

Amor che move ( http://www.ici-berlin.org/publication/556/
), Manuele Gragnolati. Milano: ilSaggiatore, 2013

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VIDEOS
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Discussion & Book Presentation: Amor che move. Una conversazione tra
Antonella Anedda e Manuele Gragnolati su Dante, Pier Paolo Pasolini ed
Elsa Morante ( http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/564/ )

Lecture: Elena Esposito. Virtual Contingency – Digital Techniques of
Remembering and Forgetting (
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/579/ )

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