Barcelona Metropolis

• Katharina Pistor

The capitalist game is about employing a social resource – the legal system – for private gain. It is played in the service of private actors, but the decisive actors are not the players...

• Antonio Turiel

In the midst of a changing world made more complicated by climate change, we must abandon the suicidal idea of perpetual growth on a finite planet and start talking about degrowth,...

• Manuel Arias Maldonado

How do democracy, sovereignty and territory relate to one another? The ownership and exercise of sovereignty make...

• Cristina Monge

The beginning of the 21^st century presents us with challenges that force democracies to improve. New challenges, both global and those specific of each area, such as Southern...

• Chantal Mouffe

We are up against a crisis of neoliberal hegemony that could pave the way for authoritarian governments, but that can also present the opportunity to restore and strengthen democratic...

• Pedro Olalla

History has shown that power owes less to knowledge and the defence of truth than to the actual possibility of shaping and imposing a discourse. The real problem of our time is...

• Peter Singer
• Yuval Noah Harari

Singer and Harari discuss how individual responsibility towards others and the planet should be exercised. To accomplish collective goals such as the fight against poverty or animal...

• Milagros Pérez Oliva

Crises are occurring one after the other and the turmoil they cause is hitting us harder and harder. People are beginning to realise that the wellbeing we enjoy may be in jeopardy.