In Common
The Barcelona Debate 2013
Zygmunt Bauman
Education
In this uncertain world living under the dictatorship of an absolute present, ever changing and ephemeral, what role does education play? Zygmunt Bauman puts forth that modern liquid culture is not a culture of learning and accumulation anymore but rather a culture of aloofness, disconnection and forgetting.
Xavier Antich i Joan Margarit
In Common. The city
A dialogue between Xavier Antich, philosopher and lecturer in History of Aesthetic Ideas at the University of Girona, and Joan Margarit, poet and architect. Presented by Joan Nogué, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Girona and of the Observatori del Paisatge de Catalunya ...
Ramón Andrés
Music
Speaking of what is common in music, what is communal, what we have in common, what we can share, is only apparently simple. It would indeed be simple if we turned to ideas that the field of sociology of music has sometimes established and even unwittingly turned into clichés after so ...
Ulrich Beck
In common. Europa
German sociologist Ulrich Beck, one of the most renowned theorists on the consequences of modernisation and globalisation, opened the “In Common” cycle of debates. In this cycle, thinkers reflected on aspects of the common good, such as nature, education, democratic ideals and even ...
