🟣ICYMI: Former Jury Chair Kwame Anthony Appiah's #BerggruenPrize Lecture ‘What Is Racism?’ explores the complexities of racism and calls for nuanced understanding. Listen to the full lecture at the link below.
Berggruen Institute
Think Tanks
Los Angeles, California 10,182 followers
Exploring new ideas across tech, governance, philosophy and culture in an era of Great Transformations.
About us
The Berggruen Institute’s mission is to develop foundational ideas and, through them, shape political, economic and social institutions for the 21st century. In the age of technology and globalization—as our traditions are challenged, new social orders are emerging and political institutions falter—critical analysis of our most fundamental beliefs and the systems founded on them is required. Great Transformations are reshaping human life, social organization, and the world. These are epochal changes, not incremental, and are taking place now, in our lives and our children’s. The Berggruen Institute seeks to deepen understanding of these great transformations, the ethical responses they demand, the social decisions they make possible, and how they are seen from different civilizational perspectives: Beyond Human: Science and technology, including especially artificial intelligence and bioengineering that can potentially redesign life itself. Innovating Culture: Cultural change, including the influence of both globalization and creativity in science, art, and social life – and attempts to resist each. Resilient Governance: The pursuit of more effective governance, including politics and social institutions. Geo-Politics and the New Economy: The global intersection of geopolitics and economics, including possible transition beyond capitalism.
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External link for Berggruen Institute
- Industry
- Think Tanks
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, California
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2010
- Specialties
- Globalization, Thought Leadership, Future Technology & Governance, Philosophy & Culture, Understanding China, Good Governance, Think Tank, and Global Relations
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304 S Broadway
Los Angeles, California, US
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Updates
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What if an Indigenous physics could facilitate communication between humans and alien beings? In a White House Briefing, Prof. Gerardo Aldana invokes ancient Mayan science—dismissed by Richard Feyman and others—that stages first contact… Join Future Humans in unfamiliar worlds where life is otherwise. https://lnkd.in/eMr7phns
Citlalli in the Sky With Cnidaria
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Can we find liberal solutions to climate change? BI VP Nils Gilman joined a panel with Matthew Yglesias to discuss. https://lnkd.in/dCFJJXGh
Climate Catastrophism Leads to Illiberalism but Doesn’t Solve the Problem
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Presenting: American Fiction Writer/Director Cord Jefferson + #BerggruenPrize Laureate Dr. Patricia Hill Collins on her scholarship and how his film, American Fiction, challenges dominant stereotypes and narratives around Black life. 📽️ Followed by a screening 🎟️Tickets here: https://lnkd.in/eXTgGUdP
American Fiction: A Conversation with Cord Jefferson and Dr. Patricia Hill Collins
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Join us on Saturday, September 14, for a conversation with Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Cord Jefferson and Dr. Patricia Hill Collins, followed by a screening of Jefferson's film AMERICAN FICTION (2023). Reserve tickets and learn more: https://bit.ly/4g1W6BW Presented by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Berggruen Institute
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This May, Jonathan Blake and The Multispecies Constitution project hosted a conversation between David Gruber & Robyn Eckersley on the political opportunities and challenges raised by emerging technologies that may open the door to interspecies translation and communication. 🐳 Read Here: https://lnkd.in/eNc_uPxN
The Political Possibilities of Whale Translation – Berggruen Institute
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What if the abandoned future of Soviet space science, dormant on Mars, reveals a secret history about life in the universe? Prof. Asif Siddiqi, historian at Fordham University, mixes Cold War history with a fictional future, telling the story of an astronaut who pieces together clues about her past to investigate a crashed rover on the Red Planet… Join Future Humans in unfamiliar worlds where life is otherwise. https://lnkd.in/dfphwJMG
Haunted on Mars
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👽What reproductive technologies will future humans use in settlements beyond Earth? Bioethicist Dr. Evie Kendal evaluates Artefacts of extraterrestrial communities. One, the Generative Archive, is a strange technology that hints at a planned revolt… Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eTjVHzhE
Extraterrestrial Ectogenesis
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"This quest to detect extraterrestrial life would fundamentally shift our concept not only of life in the universe but what it means to be human on earth, what it means to be alive." Dr. Claire Isabel Webb, Associate Director of Future Humans theme, discusses the new project, Life, Otherwise, which continues the philosophical conceptualizing of life as we don't know it. Check out the first chapter, Future Histories of Life, Otherwise, narrative essays on alternative futures here: https://lnkd.in/eiJtkmyq
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#BerggruenPrize Juror and Professor of Philosophy & Neural Science David Chalmers discusses how theoretical ideas profoundly impact society through practical applications. Today is the last day to nominate for the 2024 Berggruen Prize Laureate! www.berggruen.org/prize #IdeasMatter https://lnkd.in/eRYTp3ii
David Chalmers: How Ideas Shape Society
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