Commons
Adults-Only: A Jacuzzi in the Room, or How to Escape the Curse of a Serious Life
Begoña Gómez Urzaiz
Faced with the tedious prospect of “adulting,” hotels without children offer the possibility of escapism and an alternative fantasy world.
Planet
The Battle of Dorking
Troy Vettese | Drew Pendergrass
Three Works, by G. W. F. Hegel, Thomas Malthus and Edward Jenner shed light on today’s climate crisis.
Culture
Tania Bruguera: “We are being cut off from the possibility of thinking about what has not yet happened”
Oriol Fontdevila
We talk with the Cuban artist about the tensions between art and politics and the ability to imagine new institutions.
Storytelling
keep it cUUUUUUte – how do we write on the Internet?
Joana Girona
Every day we make linguistic decisions about how to express ourselves on the Internet, and the way we type is also a way of expressing who we are.
Commons
Technology
Internet and the Palaces of the People
César Rendueles
The crisis of neoliberalism has highlighted the failed promises of material and personal development offered up by technology.
Storytelling
Colson Whitehead: “There’s this whole secret city that’s being built when everyone else is asleep”
Albert Forns
We talked to the American writer about New York City and the stories that unfold there.
Technology
The Spiritual Cyborg
Erik Davis
Faced with the ideological domination of reductionist science and the sociocultural domination of its technological advances, what is left of humanism?
Commons
The Morphology of Collective Intelligence: Network, Swarm, Multitude or Assemblage?
Toni Navarro | Alejandra López Gabrielidis
How should we rethink the concept of collective intelligence in today’s world and what metaphors can we use to understand it?
Planet
The Power of Wonder
Juan Insua
Notes on the progressive loss of the primordial human ability to feel wonder – one of the keys to creativity and hope.
Culture
All Films Are the Same
Anna Pazos
In these times of mass media production, cultural products seem to have lost the ability to leave a mark.
Storytelling
Anna Starobinets: “The authors and readers of dystopias are like canaries in a coal mine”
Miquel Cabal Guarro
We talk to the Russian author about exile, the situation in her country and dystopian literature.
Technology
Artificial intelligences, irrational images
Elisa McCausland | Diego Salgado
The impact of artificial intelligences leads us to reflect on human-made visual creations.