Storytelling
Shall We Play a Game?
Inés Macpherson
We explore the relationships between science fiction and video games, two narrative forms with a great capacity for imagining new universes.
Education
Science
A short Big History of almost everything
Cristina Sáez
Big History is an attempt to explain, in a unified way, the history of the cosmos, the Earth, life and humanity based on science and the scientific method.
Culture
Digital curatorship or the influencer boom
Maria Farràs | Edgar Riu
As digital collections increase in size, cultural institutions are seeking new forms of organising and taking care of digital contents.
Storytelling
Graphs, Expectations and Inventing the Future
Andreu Belsunces
Visualizations contribute to creating our social imaginaries and expectations, and therefore have an impact on the construction of future realities.
Storytelling
Literature and Music Are Part of Me
Julieta Venegas
Singer-songwriter reflects on creative processes, the relationship between music and literature, and autofiction.
Commons
The Digital Environment is Fighting COVID-19 in Africa
Carlos Bajo
Across the whole continent initiatives are appearing that, supported by digital technologies, aim to fight the virus.
Storytelling
Why the World Has Become One Big Audio Fiction
Jorge Carrión
Beyond the boom in audio formats, voice and sound could configure a new relationship between humans and machines.
Planet
Reimagining the human-virus entanglement
Ignasi Torrent
Away from human-centred forms of knowledge production, the pandemic opens up the possibility of speculation about more-than-human forms of storytelling
Commons
Technology
Rethinking Artificial Intelligence through Feminism
Caroline Sinders
From a feminist perspective, we offer a critical analysis of the machine learning of artificial intelligences to find more equitable practices.
Storytelling
Iconographies of the Pandemic
Ivan Pintor Iranzo
We review the visual symptoms of the pandemic, its representation by individuals, politicians, media and the entertainment sector, and the dilemma posed by combining these with the personalised tracking of the population.
Storytelling
The Year of the Spectre
Max Besora
A confined writer keeps himself entertained by rearranging his private library and seeking refuge in books as windows to other worlds.
Planet
Dossier
Posthumanism(s)
We bring together different voices that are searching for new ways of conceiving of humanity and its relation with the ecosystems of which it forms part, taking into account the complexity and richness of plant and animal intelligences, and of artificial intelligence.