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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Towards Geo-Situated Listening
Arnau Horta
Sound mapping, memory and resonance: three ways of relating to the world around us through sound.
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Mar Santamaria: “The city is the artifact and the strategy that will enable collective survival”
Núria Moliner
An interview with architect and urban planner Mar Santamaria on the present and future challenges of contemporary cities, public policies, data and urban rights.
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Toward a “Bacterial Turn” in Art, Architecture and Design
Jens Hauser
The urban design project "Geo-LLum" proposes an experimental bacteria-powered public lightening system in Barcelona’s El Clot neighbourhood.
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Slow Thinking
Sam Twidale
Slow Thinking hopes to promote bilateral relationships with non-human entities who live and communicate on different timescales.
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Science
The space of possible minds
Philip Ball
If our experience is limited to our own bodies, how can we think about non-human minds?
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Science
What insects think about
Javier A. Canteros
Have we been dismissive in our reckoning of insect intelligence? Studies of their cognitive abilities reveal a surprising mind.
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Technology
The Costs of Digital Utopia
Evgeny Morozov
What if the costs of sticking to the “there is no alternative” agenda of techno-capitalism are considerably higher than we have assumed?