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.
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Technology
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Efraín Foglia | Ferran Esteve | Lucía Lijtmaer | Luis Paadín | Óscar Marín Miró | Ramon Mas Baucells
We invited several authors to explain what this quote by Arthur C. Clarke conjures up for them.
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
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
Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Half Wanting, Half Fearing
Carlos A. Scolari
How will new AI-based tools change the way we think and perceive the world?
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.
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The Mysteries of the Mind
Planet
Science
What insects think about
Javier A. Canteros
Have we been dismissive in our reckoning of insect intelligence? Studies of their cognitive abilities reveal a surprising mind.
Science
Tentacular brains, the sadness of a ficus and the limits of anthropocentrism
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
How can we understand the idea of intelligence in a plant or an octopus by means of our human consciousness?
Storytelling
Geek Minds
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
We try to understand the secrets of the geek mind through neuroscience. Why are geeks so passionate about narrative universes?
Commons
Cognitive Short-Sightedness, Biases and Survival
Liliana Arroyo
Our decisions are modulated by cognitive biases that affect our perception, decision-making and memory.
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.
Science
Daniel Tammet: “We don’t realise how far we can go until we try”
Juan Insua
We talk with Daniel Tammet about the secrets of the mind, language and writing, and about the numerous types of intelligence on the planet.
Technology
Neuromarketing: You Want It, You Just Don’t Know It Yet
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
Neuromarketing studies the way the brain works in consumer purchasing decisions, particularly the part of the brain that we cannot express rationally.
Education
The Internet. Shallower or Smarter?
Cristina Sáez
Is Internet eroding our capacity for concentration and critical thought or is boosting our mental agility and allows us to learn more and more quickly?
Planet
Outlining the Participatory Mind
Henryk Skolimowski
The mind is a mysterious phenomenon. To acknowledge this mystery is not to mystify the mind but to express our recognition of the complexity of the universe.
Science
On the Multiplicity of Intelligences
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
What is intelligence? How can we accurately define a concept that we only understand superficially?