Technology
The I in the Internet
Jia Tolentino
The Internet has gone from being a utopia where everything was possible to a place full of angry people obsessed with their own representation
Culture
Extremely Short History of Trap Music
Max Besora
We review the origins and principal identifying features of this musical genre, strongly linked to digital technologies and the Internet.
Storytelling
The Women Men Don’t See
Ricard Ruiz Garzón
Among the authors who most helped to renew science fiction in the 20th century was James Tiptree Jr.: the pseudonym of a woman, like those who today are leading the revolution of the genre.
Storytelling
Martian cartoon strips
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
Through comics, we analyse the evolution of our view of the Red Planet: from a territory to be conquered, to a reflection of our own nature.
Storytelling
Jeanette Winterson: “I believe in human beings, even though they have done some terrible things”
Víctor Recort
In light of her latest book, we talk with the English author about some of the most important challenges of today: the climate crisis, Brexit, and the rise of the extreme right.
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Storytelling
The Women Men Don’t See
Ricard Ruiz Garzón
Among the authors who most helped to renew science fiction in the 20th century was James Tiptree Jr.: the pseudonym of a woman, like those who today are leading the revolution of the genre.
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.
Storytelling
Technology
Contradictions in contemporary video games
Óliver Pérez Latorre
We explore the dilemmas currently posed by video games, a means of expression and entertainment that have come to hold a central position in our collective imagination.
Technology
Offline
Anna Pacheco | Efraín Foglia | Felipe G. Gil | Irene Solà | Jorge Carrión | Libby Heaney | Liliana Arroyo | Maria Cabrera | Estampa
We asked different authors to take a free, textual, no-links approach to the idea of disconnection and technology addiction.
Technology
Dank memes: the reaction to an unliveable Internet
Albert Lloreta
Emerging from the dawn of the first Internet, today dank memes can be understood as an absurd expression that condenses the spirt of our times and as an expression of fury that boycotts the marketing logic of the Internet.
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Storytelling
Technology
Contradictions in contemporary video games
Óliver Pérez Latorre
We explore the dilemmas currently posed by video games, a means of expression and entertainment that have come to hold a central position in our collective imagination.
Education
Neuroeducation and War Video Games
Eduardo Salvador Acevedo
We need awareness and education in critical consumption, as promotors of culture of peace, human values and nonviolence.
Education
Technology
Cory Doctorow: “Every euro that we spend spying on our kids is a euro we don’t spend on books”
We took the opportunity to interview Cory Doctorow who was here to launch his graphic novel In Real Life as part of the Kosmopolis ongoing programme.
Storytelling
Pixels and dopamine. Your other life on the screen
Mara Balestrini
The challenge of the game screen lies in designing contents indicated to generate dependency and placebo or remedy and vitamins.