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.
Commons
Women and Data: Counting Gender Inequalities
Tània Verge Mestre
Within the feminist movement various initiatives are in place to collect data, both quantitative and qualitative, to document gender inequalities and make them count.
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.
Technology
Rereading Debord
Ingrid Guardiola
A look at today’s hyperconnected society of social media, cognitive capitalism and algorithms through the lens of the work of Guy Debord.
Storytelling
Valeria Luiselli: “What right do we have to talk about issues that are not our own?”
Anna Pacheco
A conversation about the point from which writing departs, with one of the main voices from a generation of writers who live between Latin America and the United States.
Technology
What if the Internet were an ally of linguistic diversity?
Carlos Bajo
Some 54% of the contents on the Internet are in English. We wonder about the rest of the languages, taking as a starting point the case of the African continent, where a third of the world’s languages are spoken and cultural activists take advantage of the digital environment to defend it.
Culture
Lessons from the Bauhaus for the 21st century
Ferran Esteve
On the centenary of its foundation, we trace the influence of the Bauhaus in such diverse spheres as education, innovation and digital culture.
Culture
The Millennial Phenomenon
Marta Duran Arranz
An attempt to define the most popular generation of the moment, comparing it with the adjacent generations and analysing the phenomenon elsewhere on the planet.
