Category Archives: events

Leibniz’s Funny Thought

By jwyg | Published: 30 August, 2009

Last night I went to the 25th annual Long Night of Museums in Berlin, where over 125 museums, galleries and archives are open until the early hours of the morning for live music, films and talks. As well as some Javanese gong music and a rendition of Philip Glass’s Dance 2 in the Berliner Dom, [...]

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The Construction of Immateriality

By jwyg | Published: 7 July, 2009

The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) was launched last year at the conference for copyrighthistory.org, a digital archive of primary sources on copyright. In addition to the history of copyright, patents and other rights, the society aims to examine: [...] the diverse “roads not taken” in the evolution of [...]

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The Magus in New York

By jwyg | Published: 10 June, 2009

Johann George Hamann, “the Magus of the North”, was a minor civil servant working in tax administration, a Lutheran pietist, prolific lettrist, and polyglot. He is best known for his short, rhapsodic, densely allusive and often pseudonymous dispatches – on everything from erotic love to the importance of the letter ‘h’ – and for his [...]

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