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![Performance “Speculative Intimacy. Afectes i tecnologia digital”, dins la Biennal de Pensament del 2019. Moment de l'actuació amb una dona estirada al llit comandant un petit dron. © Xavier Torrent Performance “Speculative Intimacy. Afectes i tecnologia digital”, dins la Biennal de Pensament del 2019. Moment de l'actuació amb una dona estirada al llit comandant un petit dron. © Xavier Torrent](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/debat_portada_1100x548_0.jpg?itok=SCrc390I)
Barcelona is furnished with the conditions and the talents to become a benchmark for technological humanism. At a time when the European model for the ethics of algorithms, citizens’...
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Over a short time, we have been caught in the throes of a dystopia almost without realising it: a global pandemic, lockdowns at home, devastating fires, drone strikes... In the midst of...
![Llibre: Tothom a taula! Retrats de l’ecosistema alimentari sostenible d’una Barcelona en transformació. Lucía Herrero (fotografia) i Jordi Bes Lozano (text) — Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2020.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibretothomataula_1100.jpg?itok=b57-MV4H)
As a rule, the word sustainability in relation to food is understood to be linked to the concepts of local, seasonal, organic, fresh produce and even generates limited waste....
![Cavallet de mar fet amb materials reciclats. © Curro Palacios](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/02_debat_ciencia_1100.jpg?itok=tGmUeBAg)
Climate change is the major political, social and cultural challenge of our time, but it also constitutes a major challenge for science and technology. The City and Science Biennial,...
![Llibre: El bar Kike y Paca la Tomate. Nazario. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 160 pàgines — Barcelona, 2021](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_nazario_1100.jpg?itok=lhkM5dt_)
We are a bar culture. Every generation, every scene, has had its own, and each of these bars deserves a book like this one, because its history is the history of the collective...
![Llibre: La casa de foc. Francesc Serés. Edicions Proa, 592 pàgines — Barcelona, 2020](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_francescseres_1100.jpg?itok=MQYyY1SS)
In La casa de foc [The House of Fire], Francesc Serés immerses us in the landscape of La Garrotxa, an antediluvian and terrestrial setting that plays host to characters who see...
![Llibre: El manifest de les cures. La política de la interdependència. The Care Collective. Tigre de Paper, 144 pàgines — Barcelona, 2021](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_manifestcures_1100_0.jpg?itok=gb6xBF3F)
I recently read in Forbes magazine that there are more billionaires this year than ever. A few days later, as an antidote – which is what books are for – I read in The Care...
![Llibre: Paraules d’Arcadi. Què hem après del món i com podem actuar. Arcadi Oliveres. Angle Editorial, 170 pàgines — Barcelona, 2021](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_arcadi_1100.jpg?itok=laWHqEI3)
Paraules d’Arcadi [Arcadi’s Words] is his last book, which I have had the privilege of editing. A compendium of concepts to gain a better understanding of how this world works (...
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