Urgent!
Urgent! #02. Popular Salon
Lecture by Raúl Minchinela
The 15th of March had an immediate effect in a radical transformation of language, in thousands of posters and slogans, in our city squares, on the social networks and in countless demonstrations. Raúl Minchinela, a cultural critic and author of the audio-visual blog Reflexiones de Repronto, analyses this phenomenon, which lies somewhere between speaking out and taking action, writing and virality, ingenuity and real-time commentary, critique and sense of humour. ...
Urgent! #02. Politics of the communal
Discussion with Javier de la Cueva, Miguel Morey, Beatriz García and Daniel G. Andújar
A turning point in recent political culture and at the same time the catalyst of a heterogeneous social agenda, the 15th of March outlines a new scenario for reflection on the communal, the public and the political. Javier de la Cueva, lawyer, veteran defender of copyleft, ...
Urgent! #02. Taking Over the Square, Creating What is Public
Discussion with Guillermo Zapata and Nicolás Sguiglia
The 15th of March turned city squares into real, tangible places, material and emotional, a collective rejection of the omnipotence of the markets and a politics that is subsidiary to them; the city squares have become points of convergence between the social networks and the body social, symbols of the reappropriation and defence of the public in the physical space of the city.
Urgent! #01. Planet Money
Lecture by María Eloy-García, Sayak Valencia, Antonio Baños and Isidro López.
Counter-information and imaginary reports are the identifying features of the satirical online journalism of El Mundo Today, who will moderate this lecture-show. The event will revolve around the interventions of Isidro López (co-author of Fin de ciclo), the essayist ...
Urgent! #01. After Money
Lecture by Jaromil Rojo and Marco Sachy
Free culture has become a stimulating focus of debate on the factors conditioning the creation of wealth and its exploitation by capitalism, capable of reproducing it only on its own terms. Taking their inspiration from Bernard Lietaer and Gilles Deleuze, as well as from various local ...
Urgent! #01. Economy of Art Display
Lecture by Boris Groys
The author of The Communist Postscript, Sobre lo nuevo. Ensayo de una economía cultural (2005) and Bajo sospecha. Una fenomenología de los medios (2008), Boris Groys is one of the most lucid voices that has reached us from behind the former Iron Curtain. A philosopher, ...