Storytelling
The Unkempt Kitchen
Irene Solà
A reflection on the process of writing that follows the trail of a finished novel, where the kitchen signifies both a place and a metaphor for creation.
Commons
Science
Citizen Science and the Arts
OpenSystems
Science and art may find common ground in the drive to conduct serious scientific research through shared experiences.
Science
Quantum Agencies
Libby Heaney
What does it mean to intersect our everyday world with the seemingly counter-intuitive field of quantum science? And how have these entanglements been interrogated through art?
Education
Henry Giroux: “Those arguing that education should be neutral are really arguing for a version of education in which nobody is accountable”
João França
An interview with founder of critical pedagogy Henry Giroux on the meaning of education, suspicions regarding neutrality and on how current uncertainties could be a driving force to rethink and generate new possibilities.
Technology
Orwell in times of facial recognition
Ferran Esteve
George Orwell’s vision of dystopia, "1984", describes situations similar to those of current times and advances ethical dilemmas still difficult to tackle today.
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Education
Henry Giroux: “Those arguing that education should be neutral are really arguing for a version of education in which nobody is accountable”
João França
An interview with founder of critical pedagogy Henry Giroux on the meaning of education, suspicions regarding neutrality and on how current uncertainties could be a driving force to rethink and generate new possibilities.
Science
Michel Serres: “To think is to invent”
Juan Insua
We interviewed Michel Serres, a French philosopher and mathematician who has sought the passage connecting the scientific and humanist disciplines.
Culture
Technology
Rethinking the Internet from the cultural sector
The finalists of the Cultural Innovation International Prize offer us different ways of raising awareness and tackling the challenges faced by the Internet.
Planet
Paul Mason: “Information technology is going to erode the need for work”
Carlos Delclós
A conversation with this journalist, who is a specialist in economics and the author of “Postcapitalism”, which looks at the structural changes of our economic system and the real possibilities of imagining a world beyond it.
Commons
Citizen Science and Public Libraries
OpenSystems
Public libraries may find synergies with citizen science for the purpose of sowing participative scientific knowledge.
Featured Dossier
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
Yannick Chevalier | Christine Planté
Linguistic analysis and the study of language use is thus a necessary step in understanding how the social organisation of sex relations is perpetuated.
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quantum physics
Science
Quantum Agencies
Libby Heaney
What does it mean to intersect our everyday world with the seemingly counter-intuitive field of quantum science? And how have these entanglements been interrogated through art?
Science
Marcus du Sautoy: “Humans will never know if the universe is infinite”
Iu Andrés
A conversation with mathematician Marcus du Sautoy about the Universe, the difference between Mathematics and Physics, AI and the relationship between science and literature.
Science
The Quantum Sense IV: Why?
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics questions several of the intuitive conceptions that we construct following daily interaction with the physical world to make sense of it. One of the most profound is causality, because quantum physics shows that an event can exist without any cause.
Science
The Quantum Sense III: Quantum Information
Marta García-Matos
The change to the quantum model is gentler if physics is considered from the viewpoint of information
Science
The Quantum Sense II: Paradoxes
Marta García-Matos
In the history of quantum physics, three types of paradoxes exist: those that challenge classical physics, those that challenge intuition and common sense, and those that challenge quantum physics itself.
Science
The Quantum Sense
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics highlights the need for nonsensical humour to give sense to the world: from G. K. Chesterton at his sharpest to the Douglas Adams at his most inquisitive.
Science
Storytelling
The Elementary Bestiary
Tamara Vázquez Schröder
Rather than giving you a standard introduction to the modern formulation of particle physics, we are going to take a historical approach.
