Commons
The Echo of Medieval Philosophies and Mysticisms in Today’s World
Georgina Rabassó
We trace the philosophical, spiritual and creative footprints of medieval women authors who often remain on the fringes of hegemonic culture.
Commons
Nothing Without Us: Anti-Ableist Cultural Practices Now!
MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr)
The arts-design duo MELT is working on projects and practices that build towards worlds not structured by ableism.
Commons
Lea Ypi: “My idea of freedom is a moral idea”
Bashkim Shehu
The Albanian philosopher and writer reflects on freedom and analyses its limits in communist and capitalist societies.
Commons
Cas Mudde: “The far right is normalised”
Andreu Barnils
We talk to the Dutch political scientist about the characteristics and strategies of today’s extreme right.
Commons
Adults-Only: A Jacuzzi in the Room, or How to Escape the Curse of a Serious Life
Begoña Gómez Urzaiz
Faced with the tedious prospect of “adulting,” hotels without children offer the possibility of escapism and an alternative fantasy world.
Commons
Technology
Internet and the Palaces of the People
César Rendueles
The crisis of neoliberalism has highlighted the failed promises of material and personal development offered up by technology.
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?
Commons
The New Economy of Introspection
Ferran Esteve
The individualised focus of mental health and wellbeing tends to overlook social and political causes.
Commons
Chronopolitics, or the Politics of Time Between Finance and Computing
Andreu Belsunces
How the social experience of time is mediated by the technological advances and financial infrastructures of our society
Commons
When the (institutional) cure is worse than the (mental) illness
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
On how mental institutions went from being places of isolation to centres that are open to society, politics and art.
Commons
Technology
Rethinking AI: Distributed Cognition and Expanded Corporeality
Toni Navarro | Alejandra López Gabrielidis
A defence of AI as a commons and of the need to collectively intervene in its development.
