Culture
William Kentridge: “There are fault lines that come from the colonial period throughout the world”
Gemma Parellada
We talk to the South African artist about segregation, the echoes of colonialism and the anti-racist struggle.
Storytelling
Cassandra Khaw: “It’s just a question of time before video games are accepted as culture”
Marina Amores
We talk to the scriptwriter of video games and science-fiction author about their narrative potential and the challenges still facing this digital format.
Commons
Jason Y. Ng: “Violence will only lead to more escalated violence”
Sergi Vicente
We talk to this lawyer, activist, and journalist about his experiences with protests and non-violent civil disobedience in Hong Kong.
Storytelling
Jeanette Winterson: “I believe in human beings, even though they have done some terrible things”
Víctor Recort
In light of her latest book, we talk with the English author about some of the most important challenges of today: the climate crisis, Brexit, and the rise of the extreme right.
Commons
Carolin Emcke: “We need a language of utopia to accompany our discontent”
Roger Manau Flotats
We talk with the German philosopher and journalist about the need to heed the complex web of violences, of hate and of silences and the need to find words to fight it.
Storytelling
Valeria Luiselli: “What right do we have to talk about issues that are not our own?”
Anna Pacheco
A conversation about the point from which writing departs, with one of the main voices from a generation of writers who live between Latin America and the United States.
Technology
Renata Ávila: “The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have the Internet of surveillance and control”
Karma Peiró
An interview with this specialist in human rights, technology and freedom of expression to discuss how today’s societies are advancing to the drumbeat of “digital colonialism”.
Storytelling
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: “Europe and the West must also be decolonised”
Tania Adam
We talk with one of the leading voices of contemporary African literature about linguistic imperialism and the importance of decolonising minds and the imagination.
Education
Henry Giroux: “Those arguing that education should be neutral are really arguing for a version of education in which nobody is accountable”
João França
An interview with founder of critical pedagogy Henry Giroux on the meaning of education, suspicions regarding neutrality and on how current uncertainties could be a driving force to rethink and generate new possibilities.
Commons
Mona Eltahawy: “Patriarchy is the form of oppression with which the entire world struggles”
Míriam Hatibi
A conversation with the journalist specialised in gender equality in North Africa and the Middle East about the oppression of women and the need to deconstruct the patriarchy in all its manifestations.
Planet
Paul Mason: “Information technology is going to erode the need for work”
Carlos Delclós
A conversation with this journalist, who is a specialist in economics and the author of “Postcapitalism”, which looks at the structural changes of our economic system and the real possibilities of imagining a world beyond it.
Commons
Planet
Rosi Braidotti: “What is necessary is a radical transformation, following the bases of feminism, anti-racism and anti-fascism”
Iu Andrés
A talk with the philosopher and humanist about what it means to be human in a changing world, where new forms of capitalism are marking out the future of what we are and what we will become.