Culture
Is Counterculture Still Alive?
Joan Carbonell
We talk to Jordi Costa and Germán Labrador about the historical roots of counterculture and its current situation.
Commons
Jason Y. Ng: “Violence will only lead to more escalated violence”
Sergi Vicente
We talk to this lawyer, activist, and journalist about his experiences with protests and non-violent civil disobedience in Hong Kong.
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.
Planet
Technology
Luxury communism and automation
Ekhi L. de la Granja
Is a world possible where robots do everything, while we simply enjoy life? We consider how automation will affect us, based on the book “Fully Automated Luxury Communism. A Manifesto” by Aaron Bastani.
Technology
Offline
Anna Pacheco | Efraín Foglia | Felipe G. Gil | Irene Solà | Jorge Carrión | Libby Heaney | Liliana Arroyo | Maria Callís Cabrera | Estampa
We asked different authors to take a free, textual, no-links approach to the idea of disconnection and technology addiction.
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.
Commons
Carolin Emcke: “We need a language of utopia to accompany our discontent”
Roger Manau Flotats
We talk with the German philosopher and journalist about the need to heed the complex web of violences, of hate and of silences and the need to find words to fight it.
