SHREDDED MONEY

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»Shredded money«, 2008 by Christodoulos Panayiotou. The dune-like installation (5 meter hight and 7 meters diameter) consists of shredded bank notes. Following an agreement with the Central Bank of Cyprus, shredded Cypriot pounds were collected in January 2008 when the country

TEDxMaastricht – “What’s next in healthcare?”

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There’s some amazing things coming down the healthcare pipeline and Daniel Kraft ( @daniel_kraft ) knows a “little” about all of them. We asked him to take us on a rollercoaster-journey through them. Take for example regenerative medicine, which is

Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing

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Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia — meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. The author of “Born on a Blue Day,” Tammet

Transagriculture (2008): Bruce Sterling

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TransAgriculture is a one-day manifestation featuring penetrating introductions to the field, lectures on guerrilla and avant-gardening, and bioart forms. Bruce Sterling was speaking at this event. One of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction, and known for

Authors@Google: Kevin Kelly

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What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly will be speaking about his latest book, “What Technology Wants.” This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not just a jumble of wires and metal

Edward Said: on Orientalism

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April 16, 2003. “…the long and often inturupted road to human freedom.” Edward Said (November 1, 1935 – September 25, 2003) delivering the concluding lecture of an Orientalism conference . He was Columbia University Professor of English and Comparative Literature,

Authors@Google: Noam Chomsky

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April 22, 2008 at the Google Cambridge office, as a part of the Authors@Google series.

Slavoj Žižek – What does it mean to be a revolutionary today?

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with Alex Callinicos at Marxism 2009

Noam Chomsky – UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture

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Professor Noam Chomsky, UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011 – Contours of global order: Domination, stability, security in a changing world. Playlist of lecture excerpts: http://bit.ly/dKk2qY Further links: Blog post on the event: http://bit.ly/hwklig Professor Chomsky’s MIT page: http://bit.ly/gon5cT Category: Education

Bruce Sterling SxSW

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“Another world is inevitable, the future is unwritten.” WATCH the complete 45m SxSW closing Keynote by