The media ecosystem In 2002, when I returned to university after 12 years of work as an interaction designer and with a PhD thesis on interface semiotics under my arm, my colleagues considered me a ‘professor of new media’. At that time my teaching and research were very focused on the ‘new thing’…

Spanish version in Hipermediaciones.com Everything and the opposite of everything have been said about Argentina 1985, the film directed by Santiago Mitre that describes the Trial of the Juntas, the judicial trial of the members of the de facto military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Since the…

To say that ‘evolution is a network’ is like saying that it is not a line or a branching tree. Evolution understood as a rhizomatic plot, an infinite vine like the Cordyceps from the wonderful TV series and video game The Last of Us. What evolution is a network? Just…

After 8 years I am writing about Byung-Chul Han again. In December 2014 I reviewed his main books in a double post in Spanish that began with an entry entitled “Transparency, fatigue and psychopolitics” and continued with “Philosophy for dummies?”. There is something in this philosopher that attracts readers a…

In the last pages of my book Cultura Snack (La Marca, 2020) I introduced a hypothesis: the liquid metaphor, which was so successful since the publication of Liquid Modernity (Bauman, 1999), is no longer the best one when it comes to describe contemporary social life and culture. Let’s recap: Bauman…

My friends know that I am becoming less and less comfortable in traditional scientific writing. More than ‘uncomfortable’, I feel dissatisfied: the academic system, by focusing on scientific articles and books, does not value the production of creative texts, in innovative formats and that really make the reader reflect beyond…

Spanish version: Nuevas interfaces para un mundo postpandemia Most of the interfaces in which we participate are showing their obsolescence and inability to adapt to the brutal transformation caused by the COVID-19. If, as I wrote in The Laws of the Interface (2018), an interface is a network of human…

Spanish version: Coronavirus, epidemias e interfaces Portuguese version: Coronavírus, Epidemias e Interfaces A few days ago a colleague asked me to write something about the coronavirus and the interfaces. …

Spanish version: En busca del relato perdido The narrative as a form of knowledge Narrative is one of the main ways we have to interpret the world around us. According to Jerome Bruner (1996, 2003) there are two forms of cognitive functioning, the paradigmatic and the narrative. …