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• 15 mai 2018

  Ouro Preto

  Call for papers - Thought

  Vilém Flusser, Walter Benjamin – The technical ambiguities

  “Artefilosofia” Journal

  In different moments of his work, Walter Benjamin reflects upon the question of technology and related issues such as work as the mediation between man and nature, conducting his critical analysis of progress. He says: “What’s the idea? to speak of progress to a world sinking into the rigidity of death. (...) The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe. It is not an ever-present possibility but what in each case is given.” Marxism will also be reviewed by him  according to his critical conception of progress: “Marx said that revolutions are the locomotive of world history.

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• 31 jui 2011

  Rabat

  Call for papers - Africa

  The Place of the African University in the Emerging Global Higher Education Space

  Os decanos de faculdades das ciências sociais e humanas nas universidades africanas que desejam participar nesta conferência dos decanos terão de enviar um resumo da sua comunicação e o seu currículo. Os resumos de comunicação terão de dar entrada no CODESRIA o mais tardar a 31 de Julho de 2011.

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