Science fiction, counterfactual history, narrativized midcentury risk assessment: Future Histories of Life Otherwise, the study of what could’ve been.
Go to to explore the Life, Otherwise project.
#FutureHistories
#LifeOtherwise
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Do you have any questions about health and healthcare for Berggruen Prize winner Dr. Paul Farmer? Send them to us and take part in a
@BBC
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“La igualdad es endémica a la revolución digital, porque necesitamos aprender nuevas formas para compartir la riqueza a futuro."
Nathan Gardels habla en entrevista con
@elsolde_mexico
#RenovarLaDemocracia
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The
#BerggruenPrize
goes to another brilliant woman thinker! This time to Associate Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pioneer in
#genderequality
and strengthening the rule of law.
#IdeasMatter
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“Instead of waiting for inequality to happen and then addressing it via a universal basic income, we can instead pursue the idea of a universal right to intellectual and capital goods — a universal basic capital.”
@NBerggruen
via
@TheWorldPost
#Blockchain
"A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences."
🌟"Children of a Modest Star" by
@JonathanSBlake
&
@nils_gilman
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How well is the Russian state prepared to sustain domestic stability in light of a stagnating economy and the ongoing war in Ukraine?
The Berggruen Governance Index reveals the underlying fundamentals.
#ideasmatter
#governancematters
#russia
The 2022 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture has been awarded to Japanese philosopher and literary critic Kojin Karatani. Karatani is the first Asian laureate of the Berggruen Prize.
The nature of emotional intelligence and how we can harness its power is what Martha Nussbaum examines in her magnificent 2001 book Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions.
via
@brainpicker
#IdeasMatter
We are thrilled to announce that the 2020 Berggruen Prize goes to Dr. Paul Farmer for rethinking our global frameworks for healthcare & transforming how we think about infectious diseases and social inequality.
#IdeasMatter
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Tonight!! Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be awarded the
#BerggruenPrize
in New York City. Follow us from 7pm EST for LIVE updates from the Gala!
#IdeasMatter
Berggruen's
#TransformationsoftheHuman
dossier invites LA-based artists and collaborators to consider how the present might offer a space for imagining futures beyond existing conceptions of “the human.”
Produced in collaboration with
@LAReviewOfBooks
Berggruen Institute is proud to award Professor Martha C. Nussbaum with this years'
#BerggruenPrize
. Her work on emotions, vulnerability and human capabilities has helped guide us all!
#IdeasMatter
#WomenInPhilosophy
We’re thrilled to announce acclaimed landscape urbanist Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA as the newest member of the design and environmental team for the Berggruen Institute Scholars’ Campus! Welcome Mia!!
-
@cmonstah
via
@latimes
“What matters to me as a scientist is what needs to be explored in order to solve the problems. Not who’s right, who’s wrong, or who’s praying at which chapel." - Yoshua Bengio via
@IEEESpectrum
#aiethics
#DeepLearning
#ai
✨THIS THURSDAY! Join us for the second talk in a discussion series about art in the age of planetary consciousness—an ongoing collaboration between
@BerggruenArts
and
@ArtReview_
!
⏰ June 9, 2022 @ 5pm at
@CasadeiTreOci
👉 RSVP at rsvp
@artreview
.com
"Unless Biden wins by an electoral college margin that no one can credibly dispute, our democracy may be imperiled as never before."
@MaxBoot
participated in a "war games" scenario exercise organized by
@nils_gilman
&
@brooks_rosa
#governancematters
“We all have multiple identities”. British-Turkish novelist
@Elif_Safak
discusses pluralism, identity politics and how stories can rehumanize those who have been dehumanized. For more from this exclusive interview and our
#BerggruenSalon
with her visit our YouTube page.
Nigel Warburton—philosopher, writer, host of the
@philosophybites
podcast—interviewed 2021
#BerggruenPrize
laureate
@PeterSinger
on living morally, utilitarianism & religion, consequentialism in "the fog of life," why he gave the Prize money away & more.
"We paint democracy as a utopia, but it is not. We must forgive its failings, and work to improve them" writes NATO’s former Supreme Allied Commander
@stavridisj
via
@time
#GovernanceMatters
Here we go again! Nominations for the 2018
#BerggruenPrize
are officially open! Please submit your nominations and tell us why you think your nominees ideas have shaped humanity for the better.
#IdeasMatter
✨Save the date! Join us for a discussion w/ artist Sterling Ruby, introduced by
@NBerggruen
. This is the second talk in a series about art in the planetary age—an ongoing collaboration between
#BerggruenArts
&
@ArtReview_
!
⏰June 9 at
@CasadeiTreOci
🗓️Bernard-Henri Lévy
@BHL
will be speaking with
@FukuyamaFrancis
about his latest book, The Virus in the Age of Madness, the political challenges facing Western democracies, & possible scenarios for the world post
#COVID19
via
@aminterest
👉
“In
#philosophy
you have to learn to listen to the structure of an argument. Socrates said when you do that, you might learn something about yourself and who you’re arguing with.“ - Martha Nussbaum
#BerggruenPrize
The 2022 Berggruen Governance Index is a major new analysis of 21st century global governance using data from a 20-year period to evaluate 134 national governments throughout the world.
Hear Dawn Nakagawa explain the importance of the Index as an analytical tool.
Berggruen Institue is proud to award Prof Martha C. Nussbaum with this years
#BerggruenPrize
. Her work on emotions, vulnerability and human capabilities have helped guide us all.
#IdeasMatter
We are so excited to award Public Philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum with the 3rd annual Berggruen Prize tonight in New York City. Martha has dedicated her life to developing ideas that truly move society, and humanity, forward.
#IdeasMatter
#MarthaNussbaum
#Philosophy
#Emotions
You've heard about Universal Basic Income but what about Universal Basic Capital?
Watch this explainer to see how UBC can provide the basis for a new economy that makes sense for the 21st century.
It's time to imagine the
#FutureOfCapitalism
Berggruen Institute is delighted to inaugurate the historic Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice as our new European center.
As a pre-eminent gateway city where people, ideas & culture have flowed & changed the world, our Venice location completes a circle of activities from East to West.
"Venice is like a meta-city, a place for ideas to be exhibited and shared."
@NBerggruen
remarks on the acquisition of La Casa Dei Tre Oci as Berggruen Institute's new European Center.
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"La globalización y el capitalism digital estan creando nuevas clases de ganadores y perdedores."
Una Entrevista con Nathan Gardels sobre "Renovar la Democracia" para
@PubWeekEs
#RenovatingDemocracy
"Science fiction isn't about predicting the future, but about inspiring to think about the future we are creating. The way we fantasize about our future, inspires how we create it." -
@markoff
#FutureHumans
#CultureOfTheMachine
"Democracy is based on empathy."
@GeorgeLakoff
on the 2020 Election, framing political issues and how to mend civil discourse on the
#IdeasMatter
Podcast.
🎧 Listen to the full discussion here:
Want to be a Berggruen Fellow
@USCDornsife
and study the great transformations of our time? Our research areas are wide ranging- from economics and governance to AI & biotechnology.
👉 Deadline to apply is this Friday 1/8:
The Berggruen Institute welcomes Antikythera, a new program reorienting planetary computation as a philosophical, technological, and geopolitical force
Join philosophers, technologists, designers, + scientists
Learn more; apply to the fully-funded Studio
The Berggruen Prize Jury has selected Kojin Karatani for his "radically original contributions to modern philosophy, the history of philosophy, and political thinking."
Berggruen Institute Commits $25.5 Million to Establish New Research Center on Peking University Campus, A New Hub for Research & Dialogue to Study How Frontier Tech is Affecting Humanity!
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg epitomizes the purpose of this award in being broader than just academic philosophy." -
#BerggruenPrize
Jury Member Amy Gutmann (
@Penn
President)
#IdeasMatter
#RBG
BIG NEWS! Nominations for the 2019 Berggruen Prize Winner are now open!
Visit and tell us who you think should win the annual $1 million award for major achievements in advancing ideas that shape the world.
#IdeasMatter
On the anniversary of
#Cicero
’s death,
#BerggruenPrize
Winner Martha Nussbaum reflects on one of her favorite thinkers. “Cicero was a great statesman, a passionate Republican,” she says, “but he also cared deeply about philosophy.”
For the full video visit our Youtube Page.
📣 Save the date! Join us and
@ArtReview_
for a panel discussion around art in the age of planetary consciousness – the first in a new series of talks in collaboration with
#BerggruenArts
!
🗓️April 22, 2022 at
@CasadeiTreOci
in Venice
Tim Dixon has nominated Jonathan Haidt (
@JonHaidt
) for the 2019
#BerggruenPrize
! Who do you think should win the $1 million prize? Submit your nomination at
#IdeasMatter
Love is the answer, community is the context and tenderness is the connective tissue.
This Wednesday
@FrGregBoyle
(
@HomeboyInd
) joins our new virtual event series to share what he’s learned over 3 decades working with marginalized poplations:
Register:
Presenting “Possible Worlds,” a new lecture series that invites some of today’s most imaginative intellectual leaders and creators to deliver talks on the future of humanity.
In partnership with
@UCLA
Division of Humanities
🔻 Details below 🔻
🧵Motivated by a concern for the deteriorating relationship between China and the West, the Berggruen Institute gathered leaders and thinkers at its European center for activities,
@CasadeiTreOci
in Venice, for a dialogue between China and democracies around the world.
Berggruen Institute along with a 165-strong international group incl. 92 former Presidents & PMs, and current economic & health leaders call on the
#G20
for immediate internationally coordinated action to address
#COVID19
. MORE:
💡 Berggruen Institute's Summer 2022 Newsletter
All the ideas, projects, and partnerships we've been working on here in LA and around the world.
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The Berggruen Institute Europe has opened!
Housed in the iconic Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice, our new European center links the Institute’s work in the East and West and provides an environment to foster constructive intellectual dialogue between the USA, China, and Europe.
The Berggruen Institute sends our deepest condolences to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s family and loved ones. Justice Ginsburg was a lifelong pioneer for human rights and gender equality.