Our cultural sense of “permanent emergency” (as seen in pop culture) by Nicolás Boullosa on November 6, 2024 Can we escape the never-ending election mode now that the US elections are over? I’ll try, nonetheless. Exploring pop culture’s …
Unofficial history of databases, from tally sticks to passports by Nicolás Boullosa on July 4, 2024 Humans have managed to store information in different formats to avoid the fallibility of memory. However, keeping track of life, …
Productive idleness? from the Roman “otium” to no-screen nights by Nicolás Boullosa on March 13, 2024 Or, why quality downtime might be the secret superpower of high achievers, healthy people who don’t need to show off …
Llano del Rio: human nature & water constraints at a Mojave commune by Nicolás Boullosa on June 28, 2023 Housing prices have transformed California; the State has been losing net population due, in part, to increased difficulties for people …
Alan Watts is alive online: contradictions of a pop philosopher by Nicolás Boullosa on March 22, 2023 Elliot Mintz is a veteran consultant in his late seventies with a modern, clean look, trimmed straw blond hair, and …
How a trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon led to new endeavors by Nicolás Boullosa on December 7, 2022 Few adventures leave an imprint of fantastic, self-enclosed worlds as intense as the ones displaying discoveries of forsaken paradises on …
Finding meaning in postmodernity: the forgotten Aldous Huxley by Nicolás Boullosa on September 26, 2022 To each generation, its monsters. With his novella The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka explained more about early-twentieth-century angst than any historian …
Futurism vs neo-Luddism: battle of frontiers of thought/tech by Nicolás Boullosa on October 25, 2021 For its proximity to San Francisco, mild weather, access to the outdoors such as Tamalpais, the old hippy enclaves by …
Entre la sofisticación multimedia, el texto es a menudo imbatible by Nicolás Boullosa on February 18, 2021 Hoy nos parece algo muy normal publicar la combinación elegida de texto imagen, vídeo y audio a una audiencia privada …
Salir de la rueda de hámster: rendimiento, fatiga y burnout by Nicolás Boullosa on September 22, 2020 Agustín de Hipona abandonó el maniqueísmo, su creencia de juventud. Sin embargo, nunca olvidó la esencia de enseñanzas que habían …
