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The Yes Men Fix the World

The Yes Men Fix the World

Tabea Tietz
The Yes Men and the Haliburton SurvivaBall – Photo via Yes Men @ SurvivaNet. Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos form the culture jamming duo The Yes Men. Through their actions, they try to raise awareness about problematic social issues, in their sense. In order to do this, The Yes Men impersonate people of high economical or political influence to expose lies and injustices. They maintain fake websites to raise attention, which results in…
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Keynote by Bernard Stiegler now on Yovisto

Tabea Tietz
You can now watch Bernard Stiegler’s Keynote at the World Wide Web Conference 2012 in Lyon on Yovisto. Bernard Stiegler is a director of IRI (Innovation and Research Institute) at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmith College in London and a professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne where he teaches philosophy. Before taking up the post at the Pompidou…
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Amazing lecture about Computer History

Tabea Tietz
Check out our new amazing lecture ‘Computer History’ by the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. For one thing the series covers stories from the pre-World War II electronic computing program hosted by Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell. It provides information about the first computer machines like the Atanasoff-Berry Computer and proceeds with the flash memory technology of the late 1980’s. Next to technological backgrounds, the impact of the WWW on today’s…
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The Eagle has landed….

Harald Sack
Today, 41 years ago, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Incredible that it is already such a long time ago. All the engineers involved in the Apollo program surely must be retired by now. What about the knowledge of the technology? Is it still available or would they have to undergo total reengineering, when they might decide one day to return to the moon….? yovisto also provides some footage of the…
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Potsdamer Stadtschloss in Gefahr

Potsdamer Stadtschloss in Gefahr

Harald Sack
Potsdamer Stadtschloss (Deutsches Bundesarchiv, Bild 170-238) Due to legal reasons we had to remove the very popular video ‘Das Potsdamer Stadtschloss in Gefahr” from our collection ( including 4 other videos with historical documentaries about Potsdam from the same series). Too bad for the copyright holder…because we had also made advertisements for the copyright holder’s Potsdam DVD (where you may find all the material that has been accessible via yovisto including more…
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Steven Pinker on yovisto

Steven Pinker on yovisto

Harald Sack
Harvard linguist Steven Pinker questions the very nature of our thoughts — the way we use words, how we learn, and how we relate to others. In his best-selling books, he has brought sophisticated language analysis to bear on topics of wide general interest. Steven Pinker’s books have been like bombs tossed into the eternal nature-versus-nurture debate. Pinker asserts that not only are human minds predisposed to certain kinds of learning, such…
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