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?
Technology
Kyle Chayka: “The platform connects us but also homogenizes our tastes”
Àlex Hinojo
We talk to the journalist about minimalism and how this trend affects us when it comes to relating to the world that surrounds us.
Commons
Technology
Rethinking AI: Distributed Cognition and Expanded Corporeality
Toni Navarro | Alejandra López Gabrielidis
A defence of AI as a commons and of the need to collectively intervene in its development.
Commons
New Vectors from Xenofeminism
Laboria Cuboniks
A defence of reasoning, which allows feminism to work at different scales of complexity.
Technology
Against Complexity
Joana Moll
Technological solutions often side-step the complexity of the systemic problems they face.