Commons
Citizen Science and Public Libraries
OpenSystems
Public libraries may find synergies with citizen science for the purpose of sowing participative scientific knowledge.
Culture
Technology
Rethinking the Internet from the cultural sector
The finalists of the Cultural Innovation International Prize offer us different ways of raising awareness and tackling the challenges faced by the Internet.
Technology
A more human posthumanism?
Marc Mela
We are immersed in scientific and technological transformations that are affecting the human condition itself. What is the meaning of tendencies such as posthumanism? How should we think about this “afterness”?
Planet
Paul Mason: “Information technology is going to erode the need for work”
Carlos Delclós
A conversation with this journalist, who is a specialist in economics and the author of “Postcapitalism”, which looks at the structural changes of our economic system and the real possibilities of imagining a world beyond it.
Commons
Saving Cassandra: the Challenges of Disinformation Today
Berta Barbet
A reflection on the dangers and causes of disinformation within a context of lack of certainty and disaffection with the current system.
Commons
An Insolent “Demos”
Ekhi L. de la Granja
We review one of the founding myths of Athenian democracy, the Solon reforms, to reflect on the meaning of equality and the values of contemporary democracy.
Commons
Planet
Rosi Braidotti: “What is necessary is a radical transformation, following the bases of feminism, anti-racism and anti-fascism”
Iu Andrés
A talk with the philosopher and humanist about what it means to be human in a changing world, where new forms of capitalism are marking out the future of what we are and what we will become.
Technology
Fake news and censorship in Africa
Carlos Bajo
We analyse the particularities of the fake news phenomenon in the African continent: from its instrumentalization by governments to the mobilisation of citizens in favour of an Internet free of censorship and hate speech.
Technology
The Bad Pupil
Estampa
Through artistic practice, the Taller Estampa reflects on the discourse around artificial intelligence.
Commons
Helen Hester: “Biology is not destiny, it can be technologically transformed”
Toni Navarro
A conversation with philosopher Helen Hester about xenofeminism, a gender technomaterialist proposal that aims to offer tools for a collectively construction of a new post-capitalist world.
Storytelling
Post-fiction and how it came about
Manuel Bartual
In the era of post-truth and fake news, we take a journey to the origins of post-fiction and reflect on the purpose it may fulfil in today’s world.
