Storytelling
Technology
Did Calvino Dream of Literary Androids?
Carlos A. Scolari
The Italian writer explored the narrative as a combinatorial process and anticipated the functioning of generative artificial intelligence systems.
Technology
The double life of artificial intelligence
Marta Peirano
On automata, symbolic models, neural networks and machine learning: a brief history of AI.
Technology
First of all, how are the machines doing?
Ezequiel Soriano
Can we imagine machine creativity without falling into the trap of the modern idea of innovation and originality?
Planet
School of Humility or the New Depths
Juan Insua
We delve into three great abysses of the unknown – outer space, the depths of the sea and the enigmas of the human mind.
Planet
Francisco J. Doblas Reyes: “Limiting the impacts of global warming is in our hands”
Elisenda Pallarés Piquer
The climate scientist and IPCC author says that measures exist to mitigate climate change and transition to fairer societies.
Technology
Artificial Emotion
Ferran Esteve
As the physical and digital worlds converge, new types of emotional relationships are emerging between humans and machines.
Planet
The Last Wave
Roser Cabré-Verdiell
A story that questions how we relate to collapse as a society and as individuals.
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.
Planet
The Battle of Dorking
Troy Vettese | Drew Pendergrass
Three Works, by G. W. F. Hegel, Thomas Malthus and Edward Jenner shed light on today’s climate crisis.
Culture
Tania Bruguera: “We are being cut off from the possibility of thinking about what has not yet happened”
Oriol Fontdevila
We talk with the Cuban artist about the tensions between art and politics and the ability to imagine new institutions.
Storytelling
keep it cUUUUUUte – how do we write on the Internet?
Joana Girona
Every day we make linguistic decisions about how to express ourselves on the Internet, and the way we type is also a way of expressing who we are.