Planet
Fahrenheit 212. The Gaseous Society
Carlos A. Scolari
The metaphor of gas is the one which best represents today’s society, a constantly shifting environment with millions of colliding molecules.
Planet
On Electric Cars and Ecomodernist Silence
Arnau Horta
Despite being silent, electric vehicles perpetuate certain imaginaries of petro-masculinity and its extractivist dynamics.
Science
Critical Physics
Ignasi Torrent
An invitation to review the relationship between scientific progress and intentionally dispossessive political, economic and social projects.
Commons
Lea Ypi: “My idea of freedom is a moral idea”
Bashkim Shehu
The Albanian philosopher and writer reflects on freedom and analyses its limits in communist and capitalist societies.
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.
Technology
“No thoughts, head empty” Would digital disconnection be a utopia?
Alba Lafarga
Immersed in the digital vortex, we look at some ideas about silence and taking refuge from the noise of the internet.
Planet
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.
Culture
Mark Fisher: The Culture Behind the Post-Punk “Portal”
Germán Cano
The cultural critic gives a brilliant analysis of the contradictions of late capitalism and advocates the politicisation of mental illness.
Culture
Lorem Ipsum, or Towards a Cultural Luddism
Yaiza Berrocal
In what ways is it possible to subvert the dynamics of the culture industry embedded within a market society?
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
Technology
Immersion in the Metaverse
Inés Macpherson | Enric Luján | Jose Valenzuela Ruiz | Proyecto UNA | Antònia Folguera
We propose a creative game in which several authors delve freely into the concept and dilemmas of the metaverse.
Planet
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?