The Berggruen China Center tonight is hosting 'The Logic of Life in the Ninth Power of Ten' with Fellow Bai Shunong, exploring profound questions of life. The event is being live streamed in Chinese:
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“Democracies across the West are so paralyzingly polarized today because the public square where competing propositions can be tested against each other has virtually disappeared.”

—Nathan Gardels

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A must-read if you want to understand the past and present of India and China, in order to imagine the future. The Berggruen Institute is very pleased to have sponsored this project.

Less than two weeks until Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman's CHILDREN OF A MODEST STAR comes out! Pre-order your copy today, and use code STAR20 for 20% if you order via Stanford Press. sup.org/books/title/?i…

🏆 The inaugural 2016 #BerggruenPrize Laureate, Charles Taylor, is a global leader in deepening understanding among different intellectual traditions and civilizations. 

Nominate for the 2024 Berggruen Prize ⬇️
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🏆 The inaugural 2016 #BerggruenPrize Laureate, Charles Taylor, is a global leader in deepening understanding among different intellectual traditions and civilizations. 

Nominate for the 2024 Berggruen Prize ⬇️
berggruen.org/prize

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The apocalyptic systems thriller, does have a utopian dimension — the imagination of what Benjamin Bratton calls “planetary competency.”
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Hari Kunzru via The New York Times

Our Future Humans program is hiring a Sr. Program Manager.

Led by Claire Isabel Webb, the FH Program explores the shifting category of the human in relation to emerging, novel life forms. We connect scientists, creators, and scholars who are shaping how humans of the future will…

The Berggruen Institute is now accepting applications for 2024 Beijing Fellowships!
Thinkers in all areas are welcome to join us at the Berggruen Research Center at Peking University

Link below to Apply:
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Pleased to see Noema's work with David Autor featured in the The New York Times today!

Read Autor's article here: noemamag.com/how-ai-could-h…

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'The aesthetic of the Apocalyptic Systems Thriller, with its flaunting of globalization, its pleasure in technical advances and its refusal of the 'single window' into its stories, does have a utopian dimension — the imagination of what @Bratton calls 'planetary competency.''

What do Boeing, the collapsed bridge in Baltimore, shortages of critical pharmaceuticals, Donald Trump's ridiculous new SPAC, an unprecedented amount of speculation and concentration in stock markets have in common? We need more real engineering, less financial engineering

Congratulations to #BerggruenPrize Juror @SiriHustvedt for receiving the 2nd Annual Openbank Literature Prize, awarded by VANITY FAIR, to recognize “talent & contributions to culture by various figures from the world of publishing and journalism.” openbank.es/en/reading-clu…

'Thanks to the world of thought and the strange new structures it brings forth (nations, companies, economies, philosophies) planetary processes which were for billions of years the province of biological cells (the cycling of carbon, sulphur, and nitrogen) are increasingly under…

Looking forward to having great conversations about Heat with this group of rockstars Berggruen Institute organized by Bharat Venkat

The Berggruen Institute Europe has opened!

Housed in the iconic Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice, our new European center links the Institute’s work in the East and West and provides an environment to foster constructive intellectual dialogue between the USA, China, and Europe.

'A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences.'

🌟 Watch the trailer for 'Children of a Modest Star' by Jonathan Blake & Nils Gilman and pre-order your copy. Coming Soon

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During #WomensHistoryMonth , we remember the remarkable life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice and #BerggruenPrize Laureate Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pioneer dedicated to advancing human rights and the legal recognition of gender equality.
#WomensHistoryMonth #IdeasMatter