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.
Commons
New Vectors from Xenofeminism
Laboria Cuboniks
A defence of reasoning, which allows feminism to work at different scales of complexity.
Commons
Cognitive Short-Sightedness, Biases and Survival
Liliana Arroyo
Our decisions are modulated by cognitive biases that affect our perception, decision-making and memory.
Commons
Nkosikhona Swartbooi: “The city is worried about getting people to work early, but not about when they get home”
João França
We talk to Nkosikhona Swartbooi, founder member of Reclaim the City, a collective that fights housing segregation in Cape Town.