Technology
The Error in the Digital Era
Ferran Esteve
A review of glitch art, wrongly-programmed algorithms and the philosophy of Silicon Valley to rethink the promise of digital perfection.
Technology
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Efraín Foglia | Ferran Esteve | Lucía Lijtmaer | Luis Paadín | Óscar Marín Miró | Ramon Mas Baucells
We invited several authors to explain what this quote by Arthur C. Clarke conjures up for them.
Science
The Quantum Sense IV: Why?
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics questions several of the intuitive conceptions that we construct following daily interaction with the physical world to make sense of it. One of the most profound is causality, because quantum physics shows that an event can exist without any cause.
Culture
Transforming an Institution into a Decentralised Organisation
Ana Manzanedo | Liliana Arroyo
How teal practices can be introduced into public administration. Five common challenges and three transformative case studies.
Storytelling
The Politics of Technology-Fiction
Andreu Belsunces
Fiction, more than a formula for understanding information, acts as a means of control and a tactical technology capable of opening up other possible worlds.
Commons
Towards a Data Commons
Enric Senabre | Mayo Fuster Morell
Implications for the whole of society of the data policies of collaborative economy platforms.
Technology
Internet, Internet!
The better we know the potentials and risks of the Internet and the technologies that accelerate and expand it, the better we will be able to use them to create a more critical, creative and democratic world.
Commons
Pedro Inoue: “The innocent bystander no longer exists”
Felipe G. Gil
We talk with the creative director of the magazine Adbusters who dissects the relationships between narrative and politics, science fiction and reality, and the left and pop culture.
Technology
Freeport: a Dissection of the Invisible Internet
Karma Peiró
A summer school focusing on art, communication technologies and a networked planet.
Storytelling
General Theory of Rubbish
Agustín Fernández Mallo
On the evolution of culture, now that we are living in the post era, where artists and thinkers are recycling the remnants of a society that has come undone.
Technology
The End of Trust?
Ferran Esteve
After decades of recognition and social prestige, the companies of the digital economy are starting to receive criticisms that are questioning their reputation.
Storytelling
Spud Crazy
Martí Sales | nomdenoia
A text playing on the history of the potato, on the frontier between essay and fiction, tensing the format of a text, to think about literature and other knowledges without floodgates.