Planet
Laura F. Tenenbaum: “You have to find a way to connect with nature every day”
Cristina Sáez
Laura F. Tenenbaum gives us reasons to stay positive in the face of climate change and tells us how to communicate it more effectively.
Storytelling
Future Narratopias: Exhaustion of the Possible
Laura Benítez Valero
Speculative stories are all the rage, but when they avoid commitment they lose the power conferred upon them by the fictional.
Technology
Machines and Humans: We Need to Talk
Andreu Belsunces | Marta Handenawer
The rise of personal virtual assistants calls for reflection on who is helping whom, and to what extent we will delegate tasks to machines.
Culture
The Precarious Individual. Cultural Workers in the Digital Era
Remedios Zafra
Cultural capitalism is fuelled by the enthusiasm of those who seek to earn a living from research and creativity in cultural or academic occupations.
Science
Science, Emotion, Communication!
Guillermo Orts-Gil
To communicate science effectively beyond merely presenting data, it is necessary to connect it with emotion and narrative.
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Planet
10 Proposals to Fight Climate Change through Culture
The finalists of the Cultural Innovation International Prize offer us different ways to spread awareness and to address climate change.
Storytelling
Walking: A Thought Laboratory
Jorge Carrión
We’ve known it for centuries, but now it has been demonstrated by science and so seems to be even more certain than before. Walking stimulates creativity and thinking.
Planet
Timothy Morton: Ecology without Nature
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
We interview the philosopher Tim Morton, author of “Dark Ecology”, who proposes that we rethink the way we see ecology, anthropocentrism and art.
Commons
Technology
Technological Sovereignty? Democracy, Data and Governance in the Digital Era
Gemma Galdon
Technological sovereignty must become another pillar on which to gradually construct and consolidate a new technological model that is ethical, responsible and civic.
Science
Science, Emotion, Communication!
Guillermo Orts-Gil
To communicate science effectively beyond merely presenting data, it is necessary to connect it with emotion and narrative.
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In the Feminine
Culture
The Precarious Individual. Cultural Workers in the Digital Era
Remedios Zafra
Cultural capitalism is fuelled by the enthusiasm of those who seek to earn a living from research and creativity in cultural or academic occupations.
Commons
Culture
Putting Diversity into Cultural Heritage
Cira Pérez
Can cultural institutions help to redefine our heritage from a multicultural perspective?
“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum? Less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are female.”
Commons
Culture
Female Public/s: Side B of Culture
Mª Ángeles Cabré
The fact is that in spite of their large numbers, women in culture function as minorities, like what Nancy Fraser dubbed “subaltern counterpublics”.
Commons
Technology
(In)Net: in the Mirage of Social Networks
Mª Ángeles Cabré
Are social networks a new tool for women’s empowerment? Or are they incapable of deactivating the mechanisms of inequality?
“Good girls go to heaven but bad girls go everywhere.”
Technology
A Secret History: Female Computing
Mª Ángeles Cabré
Many women have actively participated in the development of computing and they deserve to be remembered.
Commons
What Gender Owes to Grammar
Christine Planté | Yannick Chevalier
Linguistic analysis and the study of language use is thus a necessary step in understanding how the social organisation of sex relations is perpetuated.