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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The Berggruen Institute is actively recruiting for an experienced coordinator to join our awesome Events Team based in Los Angeles. If you or someone you know is interested, please submit a resume and cover letter to Careers@berggruen.org. Here's a link to the posting... https://lnkd.in/gF7JVdXp
“We need to totally re-organize government systems so that they more align with the scales at which action happens.” Nils Gilman & Jonathan Blake discuss Planetary Governance on the Challenging Climate Podcast Listen wherever you get your podcasts. #ThePlanetary https://lnkd.in/eZWNrGei
"Nation-states and the global governance institutions they have formed simply aren’t fit for the task of managing things such as viruses, greenhouse gases and biodiversity, which aren’t bound by political borders, but only by the Earth system." Jonathan Blake & Nils Gilman on governing for the planet #ThePlanetary https://lnkd.in/eEcFdyuq
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 Extraterrestrial Ectogenesis and join Future Humans in unfamiliar worlds where life is otherwise. https://lnkd.in/eTjVHzhE
🚨 TOMORROW is the LAST day to submit your essay for the #BerggruenPrize Essay Competition. Enter for your chance to: 🏆 Win a $25,000 cash prize! 🌎Get published in award-winning magazines 🎉 Be honored at an award ceremony https://lnkd.in/eFTnmbXb
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… Read “Haunted on Mars: Netti’s Red Star” and Join Future Humans in unfamiliar worlds where life is otherwise. #FutureHumans #LifeOtherwise
What if an Indigenous physics could facilitate communication between humans and alien beings? In a White House Briefing, Prof. Gerardo Aldana of UC Santa Barbara invokes ancient Mayan science—dismissed by Richard Feyman and others—that stages first contact… Read Citlalli in the Sky and explore Life, Otherwise. https://lnkd.in/eMr7phns #FutureHumans
What is life? Anthropologists Dr. Dana Burton, Fellow at NYU, and Prof. Valerie Olson of UC Irvine, embody alien biologies that emerged from multiple origin points on Mars—entangled beings that consider new life on Earth, billions of years ago… Join Future Humans in unfamiliar worlds where life is otherwise. https://lnkd.in/eu3aWj64
What chimeras of nature might blossom between earthly and extraterrestrial organisms? Historians Dr. Lois Rosson, Space Historian with the NASA History Office, and Dr. Claire Webb, Director of the Future Humans theme at the Berggruen Institute, write as future historians accounting for the mysterious events at an asteroid-mining project in 2119… Explore Empire of the Dandelion: https://lnkd.in/e2qC3Vm2
Future Histories of Life Otherwise is a collection of five standalone essays, using history social scientists have extrapolated to construct written scenarios that explore alternative historical outcomes within the space environment. Through defamiliarizing the culturally mediated, readers will examine the invisible cultural forces that shape history's trajectory and imagine tangible alternatives. Explore Future Histories of Life Otherwise and enter the expanding universe of the Life, Otherwise project. #FutureHistories #LifeOtherwise