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, …
Gaudí’s Sagrada Família: tribute to Nature of a modern anti-modern by Nicolás Boullosa on March 27, 2024 Lack of meaning, short attention span, atomization… The modern world can feel senseless. With an endeavor spanning several generations, Barcelonians …
Does an increase in social housing keep cities affordable? Not always by Nicolás Boullosa on March 20, 2024 In Vienna, a large social housing stock keeps overall housing costs down. In Paris, not so much. The year of …
Trust & share: how humans domesticated themselves, then animals by Nicolás Boullosa on March 30, 2023 To prepare for our visit to London’s Cabinet War Rooms, the bunkered basement beneath the Treasury building from where Winston …
Simone Weil fought alienation with humanism, overcame angst by Nicolás Boullosa on January 13, 2022 She was frail, opinionated, stubborn, short-sighted, and prone to get sick. Coming from an urban, intellectual family, she also excelled …
La vida instrucciones de uso: espacios que elevan lo cotidiano by Nicolás Boullosa on November 3, 2020 Una comunidad de personas no es la suma de todas sus individualidades. Ya antes del surgimiento de las democracias liberales, …
El libro, un artilugio todavía temido por la policía política by Nicolás Boullosa on October 9, 2019 Para mantener su pulso, la sociedad abierta no sólo necesita medios de comunicación libres y relativamente independientes de los poderes …
Mapa/territorio: simulación y mundo real difuminan su frontera by Nicolás Boullosa on March 20, 2019 Las siglas FPS (“frame per second”, fotogramas por segundo en un vídeo casero publicado en la red o emitido en …
Cuando lo revolucionario era el centro: vigencia de 4 autores by Nicolás Boullosa on January 30, 2019 En 1919, el invierno fue especialmente duro en Europa Central. Un ejército de veteranos de guerra en harapos, perdedores de …
