Human beings are not free-floating agents capable of reshaping themselves in any way they choose; this only happens in online virtual worlds. We are limited in the first instance by our physical bodies. Technology has done a lot to free people from t
Architects design space, but also time. Imagining the city after the pandemic, they strive to reconcile the need for social distance with the convenience of proximity: on one hand, space is fragmented to avoid contact; on the other, uses are gathered
The slick, spotless, smooth, and spick-and-span is the hallmark of our times. It’s what Jeff Koons’s sculptures, iPhones, and Brazilian waxing have in common. Why is the sleek so attractive to us nowadays? Aesthetics aside, it reflects a general soci
Desde que Jeremy Bentham acuñó el término ‘cacotopía’ en su Parliamentary Reform in the Form of a Catechism (1817) para calificar «un antónimo de Utopía... entendida como la sede imaginaria del peor gobierno que jamás pueda descubrirse y describirse»
Quizá la Bienal de Venecia debería celebrarse en invierno; en julio y agosto la presión del turismo es asfixiante. Venecia es posiblemente una de las ciudades más adecuadas para la celebración de un acontecimiento de este tipo, con todo un pasado viv
