From: "Ulrich Arnswald" <Ulrich.Arnswald-AT-urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date:          Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:36:00 MET-1MEST
Subject:       Lecture Announcement and Invitation


 
 ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION

 Alien Determination of Information as Ethical Challenge for
 the Epoch of Information by Prof. Helmut F. Spinner, University of 
 Karlsruhe 
 
 Venue:  German-American Institute (Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut),  
         Sofienstrasse 12, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany

 Date:   July 14, 1999

 Time:   8 p.m.


 Alien Determination of Information as Ethical Challenge for the  
 Epoch of Information

 The right to informational self determination following the census 
 judgement of the BVG (German Supreme Court) of 1983 is being  
 undermined through the framework existing in the world wide web.  
 The possibilities today for alien determination of information
 through manipulation go far beyond the then feared opportunities of 
 conditioning and influencing, of the gathering of "personality 
 profiles" etc. The new realities of the open, criterion-free 
 information networks demonstrate the limits of legal data-protection
 under the conditions of "ruling without government". What form of
 knowledge-control will rule in the future? 
 
 The lecture is organised by The European Institute for International 
 Affairs and is sponsored by the Heinrich Boell-Stiftung Baden-
 Wuerttemberg.

 Helmut F. Spinner is professor for epistemology and philosophy of 
 technology as well as the director of the General Science Programme
 and the German-Russian Collegium at the University of Karlsruhe, 
 Germany. He was educated in economics, philosophy, sociology and
 psychology at the universities of Mannheim, Cologne and Heidelberg. 
 He spent time as a European Research Fellow at the London School of 
 Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the departments of 
 philosophy and political science. He is also a member of the European
 Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg). Recent publication:
 The Architecture of the Information Society (1998).

 Inquiries

 Expressions of interest, questions and request for further 
 information may be directed to Ulrich Arnswald 
 (Ulrich.Arnswald-AT-urz.uni-heidelberg.de).



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