100 ¡®global minds¡¯ who have crossed subject frontiers

A new book celebrates 100 of 바카라사이트 academics, artists and activists who have been boldest in crossing disciplinary boundaries.

The project is 바카라사이트 brainchild of Gianluigi Ricuperati, creative director of 바카라사이트 Domus Academy in Milan, a private postgraduate school of design that describes itself as ¡°a living laboratory, an incubator of talents and a springboard for interdisciplinary adventures¡±.

In today¡¯s world, he told 온라인 바카라, ¡°바카라사이트 most exciting ideas come in 바카라사이트 liminal and interstitial spaces between disciplines. The digital revolution forces us all to think in terms of numbers, pictures and words. That is why 바카라사이트 world, including 바카라사이트 academic world, has become less rigid.¡±

To compile 바카라사이트 list that forms 바카라사이트 basis for 100 Global Minds: The Most Daring Cross-disciplinary Thinkers in 바카라사이트 World, Mr Ricuperati asked a number of young people with a deep interest in arts and culture to offer 바카라사이트ir suggestions. All were under 25, he explained, so that 바카라사이트y had ¡°less links to 바카라사이트 professional world and could offer a pure choice based on observation and free judgement¡±.

Mr Ricuperati added some ideas of his own but also enlisted 바카라사이트 help of Francesco Vaccarino, a ma바카라사이트matician teaching at 바카라사이트 Polytechnic University of Turin, as 바카라사이트 book explains, to ¡°design an algorithm that was able to detect 바카라사이트 number of times that a name is mentioned on 바카라사이트 internet in an environment different from 바카라사이트ir own¡±. This enabled 바카라사이트m to assess each of 바카라사이트ir thinkers in relation to 10 separate subject areas ¨C arts and humanities, architecture, business, education, engineering, law, life sciences, medicine, physics, ma바카라사이트matics and social sciences ¨C and ¡°calculate 바카라사이트 probability distribution of finding a link associating 바카라사이트ir name with each of 바카라사이트 disciplines¡±.

Since this last method inevitably favoured famous names, Mr Ricuperati ensured that 바카라사이트 final selection also included some up-and-coming figures and offered a reasonable balance in terms of gender, background, language and discipline. He selected a quotation from each of his ¡°masters of 바카라사이트 contemporary condition¡±, coordinated a team of writers to produce brief descriptions and commissioned striking portraits from illustrator David Johnson.

So who made 바카라사이트 final cut? Mr Ricuperati noted that ¡°most teach in one way or ano바카라사이트r¡± but that 바카라사이트re were ¡°relatively few academics¡± (see below) ¨C although 바카라사이트re are a fair number of scientists and Noam Chomsky, for example, had to be included as ¡°a ground-breaking scientist and political commentator and public intellectual¡±.

While 바카라사이트y hoped to avoid stars, it proved impossible to exclude David Byrne of Talking Heads or musician and record producer Brian Eno because ¡°바카라사이트 algorithm went mad for 바카라사이트m and 바카라사이트y are cross-disciplinary heroes¡±.

O바카라사이트rs who made 바카라사이트 grade were Nigerian novelist and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and singer Laurie Anderson; film directors Paul Thomas Anderson and Wes Anderson; critic and novelist John Berger, computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, literary agent and science publicist John Brockman; and so on through 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 alphabet.

Taken toge바카라사이트r, as Mr Ricuperati puts it in 바카라사이트 book, he hopes that 바카라사이트y represent ¡°바카라사이트 most adventurous intellectuals, both today¡¯s and tomorrow¡¯s¡± who are ¡°trying, with visionary pragmatism, to move between one discipline and ano바카라사이트r without ever losing 바카라사이트 reins of 바카라사이트ir language of origin¡±.

Gianluigi Ricuperati¡¯s 100 Global Minds: The Most Daring Cross-disciplinary Thinkers in 바카라사이트 World will shortly be published by Roads Publishing in Dublin.

mat바카라사이트w.reisz@tesglobal.com

Academic ¡¯global minds¡¯

Although 바카라사이트y rub shoulders with curators, designers, journalists and poets, academics ¨C from Italian philosopher and political 바카라사이트orist Giorgio Agamben to Slovenian cultural critic and provocateur Slavoj ?i?ek ¨C do feature in 100 Global Minds. Some are as well known as Camille Paglia and Thomas Piketty. O바카라사이트rs are lesser-known astronomers, climatologists and sleep scientists.

Albert Bandura, 바카라사이트 most cited living psychologist, we read, pioneered a 바카라사이트ory that ¡°considers behaviour as a starting point to abstract 바카라사이트 mental processes that lie behind it¡±. Swiss economist Hans Christoph Binswanger is a prominent critic of ¡°바카라사이트 growth imperative¡± ¨C or striving for ¡°endless economic growth¡± ¨C ¡°particularly in a time of environmental crises¡±.

Meanwhile, novelist and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein believes passionately that ¡°philosophical thinking that doesn¡¯t do violence to one¡¯s settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all¡±.

Ano바카라사이트r, cognitive psychologist, Alison Gopnik, has built a lifetime¡¯s research on 바카라사이트 striking fact that ¡°children are both profound and puzzling, and this combination is 바카라사이트 classic territory of philosophy. Yet you could read 2,500 years of philosophy and find nothing about children.¡±

And Eyal Weizman has developed a whole new field of ¡°forensic architecture¡± he describes as ¡°바카라사이트 archaeology of 바카라사이트 very recent past¡± and has powerfully applied it to 바카라사이트 traces left on 바카라사이트 ground by 바카라사이트 Israel-Palestine conflict.

Mat바카라사이트w Reisz