by Marta | Mar 7, 2018 | Article
In the ‘80s the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari coined the concept of minor literature. They defined it not only as the expression of a minority, but as a literature capable of revolutionising a mainstream conversation from...
by Marta | Mar 5, 2018 | Article
Last week a great delegation representing the Next Generation Internet initiative made it through the European blizzard to Barcelona. The occasion was 4YFN, the startup branch of the Mobile World Congress. The vision we are advocating for is that of the Internet as an...
by Marta | Feb 21, 2018 | Article
In his recent contribution to the Pervasive Labour Union special issue about Entreprecariat, “All things optimal”, Michael Dieter elaborates the concept with respect to optimisation dominant paradigm. In his view, “optimization links the axiomatic...
by Marta | Feb 20, 2018 | Article
The recent report “Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU 2018 – Strengthening the foundations for Europe’s future” insists on the relevance of science research and innovation as key drivers for prosperity. The report analyses...
by Marta | Jan 16, 2018 | Article
“Time and Space died yesterday. We are already living in the absolute, since we have already created eternal, omnipresent speed”. (Tommaso Marinetti, the Futurist Manifesto, 1909) In the richest parts of the world, connectivity is no longer a task enabler, but a...
by Marta | Nov 21, 2017 | Article
(This post originally appeared on the Music Tech Fest blog) New technologies are often blamed for an array of societal problems including precarious employment, economic exclusion and social division. But technologies do not simply happen to us – we create them....
