Marina Garcés
Philosopher and writer
A senior lecturer in Arts and Humanities Studies at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), where she initiated and is director of the master’s degree in Philosophy for Contemporary Challenges, her main field of work is politics and critical thought, and the need to construct a philosophical voice that can speak out for commitment, action, and emancipation on the basis of awareness of our interdependence in a shared world. She has presented her thought in several essays, including En las prisiones de lo possible (Bellaterra, 2002), Un mundo común (Bellaterra, 2013), and Filosofía inacabada (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015). The book Nova il·lustració radical (Anagrama, 2017), in which she suggests that we live in a “posthumous condition”, was awarded the 2018 City of Barcelona Prize in the Essays, Social Science and Humanities category. Her book Ciutat Princesa (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2018) consists of personal and collective political memoirs by means of which she traces the recent history of Barcelona. She has also published Escola d'aprenents (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2020), in which she vindicates the necessity to rethink the ultimate meaning of education. She has worked with such institutions as the Barcelona Institute of Humanities, the CCCB, and the MACBA, with which she has taken part in joint projects reflecting on the world of education and transformations in the domain of the humanities, and other subjects, and resulting, for example, with the project Humanitats en transició (Raig Verd, 2019) and Pedagogies i emancipació (Arcàdia, 2020). At present she is coordinator of “L’angle cec” section of the TV3 television programme “Planta Baixa”, after having regularly written for media outlets like the daily Ara. Her opinion pieces have been collected in the book Fora de classe. Textos de filosofia de guerrilla (Arcàdia, 2016), and the CCCB has also published her brief essay El compromís (CCCB, 2013). Since 2002, she has been promoting and coordinating the programme “Espai en Blanc”, a collective endeavour aiming at a committed, practical, and experimental relationship with philosophical thinking.
Update: 28 September 2020
Contents
To Be or Not to Be: Dialogues between Science and Philosophy
Dialogue between Antoni Hernández, Albert Solé and Susanna Tesconi, conducted by Marina Garcés
To Think with Judith Butler
Soy cámara online
Gayatri Spivak and Marina Garcés
Education of the Future
Ishmael Reed with Marina Garcés
Primera Persona 2018
Ethics and Politics of Non-violence
Lecture by Judith Butler
Lúa Coderch. Aula oberta #16
Knowing, doing, understanding
What is the purpose of culture?
Soy cámara online
The humanities challenge in the 4th Industrial Revolution
Soy Cámara online
Marina Garcés
Knowing, doing, understanding
The Aftermath of the Aftermath (A Reflection on Time)
Soy Cámara online
Marina Garcés
Unfinishing the World
Unbranding Barcelona
Lecture by Marina Garcés
Soy Cámara #36. What is the purpose of culture?
The CCCB’s Programme
Marina Garcés: “Culture is an ongoing process of transformation and crisis”
Interviews with Marina Garcés, Eduard Escoffet, Emili Manzano, Francesc-Marc Álvaro, Isona Passola, Rosa Pera, Simona Levi, Han Nefkens, Xavier Marcé, Jordi Oliveras, Toni Casares, Ricard Robles, Marta Clari and Vicenç Altaió
The sense of culture. Culture as a common good
Debate with Marina Garcés, Nicolás Barbieri and Joan Miquel Gual
Interview a Marina Garcés
Philosopher
In Common. Engagement
Lecture by Marina Garcés
The cultural counter-reform. The Comeback of Cultural Identities
Debate with Michael Kazin and Javier de Lucas
Publications
64. El compromís / Commitment
Marina Garcés
