Text and image by Corinna Heumann Culture as an elixir of life or culture as food for thought – despite the professed appreciation, culture is often seen as an actually superfluous cost factor, as an entertaining …
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Culture is the Attempt to Bring Paradise into the Midst of Life – a Plea for a Lively European Cultural Policy
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Aleatorics and Reimagination as Principles of Creative Processes
Text and Illustration by Corinna Heumann Aleatorics, or the play with chance, has nothing to do with probability theory or game theory. However, it has widely been established as a creative technique in recent decades. …
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Career – all circus?
Text & illustrations by Susanne Gold When it comes to careers, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding today. For a long time, the concept of career followed simple rules: Diligence and getting to …
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Digital Ethics – Will Unknown Algorithms Direct Our Lives? An Interview with Prof. Dr. Cordula Meckenstock
Interview and Illustration by Corinna Heumann Professor Meckenstock, you are deeply involved in digital ethics. What is digital ethics about? Digital ethics is a fairly new term. Basically it is the logical consequence of technological …
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Rethinking Europe: The Realistic Utopia, The Other Branch
Text and book Christian Much/ Illustration Corinna Heumann Political utopias inspire all eras. Alongside the better-known ones such as Plato’s State, Thomas More’s Utopia, George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, some have …
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Craftsmanship of Mechanical Watchmaking and Art Mechanics as UNESCO World Heritage
Text and image: Corinna Heumann ‘It shivers with love…’ – the mechanical heart of Olympia: Craftsmanship of Mechanical Watchmaking and Art Mechanics have recently been inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of …
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Why Hugo the dachshund sleeps in the aquarium – weird theories with propositional logic
Illustration Susanne Gold, Text Aenne Barnard A little over a year ago – just before Corona – I attended my first yoga class, with lots of “Ooohhmm”, singing bowls, scented oil and chanting. Lilly(name changed) …
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Goddess – Mother – Creator: Notes on Cultic Sites in the Eifel Region
Essay and Illustration Corinna Heumann – In the worship of their deities the social structure of a society is reflected. At special sites, at the archaeological temple districts of the matrons in the forests of …
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Witch Hunt 2.0: High-tech in the computer – Middle Ages in the brain!
Illustration and text: Susanne Gold With digitalization, he came into the world: the “Homo Protestus”, as I call him. You meet him in the social media. And if he had his way, witches would be …
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Always the right playlist? Whether cheerful or dreary days?
Text and illustration by Susanne Gold Spoilt for choice: the music selection on Spotify seems almost endless. Apparently, Spotify wants to help with the music selection – depending on the mood of the listener – …
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Interview with Professor Hüther (3): Childhood and education for a better society!
Cover photo Vivian Haddad/ Interview Susanne Gold Professor Gerald Hüther is a neurobiologist and one of the best-known brain researchers in the German-speaking world. He is the author of numerous (popular) scientific publications and chairman …
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Planet Earth and its Ruler: Is the Curtain Closing?
Cover photo Vivian Haddad /Text Susanne Gold Sad high – Humans are outcompeting nature for the first time. Everything we humans produce is referred to as “anthropogenic material” by experts. For the first time, there …
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Museum Founder, Feminist, Artist: Who is Marianne Pitzen?
Portrait by Dennis Divinagracia/ Text by Corinna Heumann Marianne Pitzen, born in Stuttgart in 1948, exhibits her works publicly for the first time as early as 1969. Shortly thereafter, she and her husband, Horst Pitzen, …
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Interview with Professor Hüther (2) – The search for happiness in the digital age.
Cover photo Vivian Haddad/ Interview Susanne Gold Professor Gerald Hüther is a neurobiologist and is one of the best-known brain researchers in the German-speaking world. He is the author of numerous (popular) scientific publications and …
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World Health is in the Hands of Women
Illustration by Corinna Heumann/ Text by Ted Ganten, Susanne Gold, Corinna Heumann Setting the pace in terms of equality: World health is in the hands of women! Equal treatment of women and men makes societies more …
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Does Europe not just want to protect its data? Digital race!
Illustration and text Susanne Gold “European Alliance on Industrial Data and Cloud” is the name of the initiative for which the European Community intends to provide €10 billion. The size of this sum alone makes …
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Life is short, art remains
VITA BREVIS, ARS LONGA Mega-retrospectives, futuristic museum buildings, biennials, triennials, blockbuster exhibitions, gallery weekends and sensational auction records – what remains of the era of the art boom and its sales records? Climate change as …
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Interview with Professor Gerald Hüther (1): Hate-Speech
Cover photo Vivian Haddad/ Interview Susanne Gold Professor Gerald Hüther is a neurobiologist and is one of the best-known brain researchers in the German-speaking world. He is the author of numerous (popular) scientific publications and …
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Made in Europe – Digital human dignity?
Photo Vivian Haddad, Content Susanne Gold & Corinna Heumann There is no mathematical equation for the consequences of technological progress. This is why technological developments always automatically raise the question of responsibility for them. Europe …
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“This world will be saved by laughter”
Text: Nina Beier Lockdown, exit restrictions, compulsory face masks – the coronavirus has turned our lives upside down in recent months. The following report was written before this very unusual time. A snapshot from times …
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Waiting: A lockdown for more sense?
Illustration and text by Susanne Gold We are all waiting for the end of the pandemic – the end of the lockdown. Many feel as if they are sitting in a global waiting room and …
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Sensitive as humans. Portable magnetic skin.
Illustration Corinna Heumann / Text Susanne Gold A hand that delicately strokes the soft material of a piece of velvet, feels the landing of a butterfly or tenderly grips the hand of another: Feeling – …
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COVID-19: Tired in 20 minutes!
Photo and text by Susanne Gold How will we be in a few weeks’ time, how will the people and nations, the trade and economy of the world feel? That is probably the question many …
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Pandemic – danger and possibility!
Against the backdrop of the global challenge of the current coronavirus, it seems strange that we have taken it for granted that our lives would stay the way they are forever and that we are …
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Artificial intelligence: Will we soon live with robotic humans who are smarter than us?
Hardly any other field of computer science triggers as many emotions as “artificial intelligence”. Will machines one day have a consciousness? Will they be able to think like humans?” These are the questions of our …
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Milking the blue cow
This historical expression originates from the west coast of Denmark and refers to the fact of living on the flotsam of the sea. After every major storm, the coastal dwellers once climbed over the sandy …
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Homo Connectus: Do we need a global ethic?
“I can manage on my own!” – is anyone who says that sentence happy? You go on a world trip, but never speak a word to anyone on your way – are you happy then? …
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“Great again”? No, thanks!
What will the historians of the future call our epoch? As the ages of reorganization? As the epoch of social hysteria or distorted perception? As incipient post-capitalism? Facts versus alternative facts We live in parallel …
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Renaissance of religions. Luck or burden?
The age of Manchester capitalism seems to be over: Workers are no longer fully exploited physically and psychologically. Modern man is free and secure. But – will it stay that way? Our living and working …
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Did God die on the assembly line of capitalism?
On the way to the industrial age, the world seemed to have come apart at the seams: “God is dead” – announced Friedrich Nietzsche in 1883. The hell in the cities With the onset of …
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The voices in our head and the stars in the sky – is everything we have learned wrong?
Measurements prove that only what passes through the filters in our brain can penetrate our consciousness. Only when synchronously firing nerve cells react to an object in our field of vision does a reality appear …
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We’re all gonna die! What can we do?
Man is no exception! Every living thing ages and will die. Nevertheless, it seems as if people have a special place in nature – because they are aware of their transience. We meet our death …
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Digitally stupid – Is digitization making us all shallow thinkers?
Modern man is above all one thing: absent-minded! In a time in which we are mostly digitally overstrained, one elementary question arises: Will our thinking become increasingly flattened by the Internet? How can we stay …
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The fear of super-intelligence. Do machines get smarter than people?
The human brain stores and organizes information according to patterns and is thus the inspiration for artificial intelligence. In our brain, more than 100 billion nerve cells are connected, which store our knowledge in patterns, …
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Megatrend minimalism – what does the hermit crab teach us?
Yadokari is his name, he was born in Japan and likes to live by the water. The hermit crab always carries its house with it, is small, efficient and flexible. This makes him a symbol …
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Privacy Paradox: Do we want privacy or not?
Online, many of us disclose our data, communicate via social media, use dating portals and payback cards relatively carefree. When travelling on the net, many people seem to be indifferent to the fact that they …
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Social justice – just a ghost?
The poor get poorer, the rich get richer: A study by the Hans Böckler Foundation showed that the salary gap between top managers and employees in the 30 Dax corporations continues to widen. Comparing the …
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Working agile – but how?
It was not so long ago that employees did not have to think a lot. They were assigned tasks, which they completed according to priority. This world still exists – parallel to the newly emerging …
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Do robots write song lyrics?
Robots as journalists He who writes, stays! For a long time, the idea was held that man could retain sovereignty over the word and thus his secure job. Natural language was believed to be a …
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Trade is change?
Whether it’s corner shops, supermarkets, specialty stores, department stores or entire shopping arcades – it seems as if no store will remain untouched by the digital upheavals of our time. In many cases, the process …