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.
Storytelling
Anna Starobinets: “The authors and readers of dystopias are like canaries in a coal mine”
Miquel Cabal Guarro
We talk to the Russian author about exile, the situation in her country and dystopian literature.
Technology
Artificial intelligences, irrational images
Elisa McCausland | Diego Salgado
The impact of artificial intelligences leads us to reflect on human-made visual creations.
Storytelling
Cristina Rivera Garza: “To write is to create empty space”
Lolita Bosch
We talk to Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza, one of the most important voices in Latin American literature today.
Storytelling
Technology
Living life as “content”
Joana Girona
On the subversion of identity on social media, algorithms that act as your mum, micro-labels on TikTok and online individualism.
Planet
Oceanic Karma
Cristina Romera Castillo
The ocean can help mitigate the effects of the climate crisis, but only if we protect it and restore the damage we have caused.
Technology
“No thoughts, head empty” Would digital disconnection be a utopia?
Alba Lafarga
Immersed in the digital vortex, we look at some ideas about silence and taking refuge from the noise of the internet.
Planet
Storytelling
Pankaj Mishra: “Modernisation is offered as a liberation, and yet it comes with many psychic costs”
Elisabet Goula Sardà
We talk to the renowned Indian author and writer about the complex relations between the West and the Global South.
Culture
Mark Fisher: The Culture Behind the Post-Punk “Portal”
Germán Cano
The cultural critic gives a brilliant analysis of the contradictions of late capitalism and advocates the politicisation of mental illness.
Planet
A Welcoming Apocalypse
Alba Muñoz
The end of the world began to excite me in a way that was theoretical and perverse – it was like sucking on a never-ending sweet.
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?