In 2006, the French geographer Yves Lacoste published “Geopolitics. The Long History of the Present”, a work that proposes an innovative reading of international relations through the overlapping of maps and scales of analysis. Lacoste, founder of the journal Hérodote and considered one of the fathers of modern geopolitics, offers in this book a perspective that goes beyond the traditional […]
Marx used to say—and Rafael Correa popularized—that press freedom is the freedom of the owner of the printing press. Thus, the information received through major media outlets is increasingly conditioned by a media oligopoly that imposes a Manichaean view of reality. This is the premise from which Augusto Zamora starts in his essay “Política y geopolítica para rebeldes, irreverentes y […]
We are living through a time of profound geopolitical shifts, but the dominant narrative still almost always filters through the Western prism. While the powers of the global north debate alliances and sanctions, in the south platforms are emerging that aspire to rewrite the rules of the international game. One such space is the BRICS bloc, and sociologist Aníbal Garzón […]
“There is no anti-capitalist movement […] with a plan of action compatible with climate deadlines”. This is the central thesis of All In: A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse, a book written in 2025 by activists from Climáximo, a civil disobedience climate action movement in Portugal. The authors, Mariana Rodrigues and Sinan Eden, have accumulated years of experience on […]
Since 2010, the use of algorithms and big data systems has enabled corporations and institutions to control, classify, and exclude vulnerable individuals and groups in digital society. These automated models, presented as neutral, reproduce existing inequalities and amplify social discrimination. In the book Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil examines how these systems affect key areas such as credit, employment, […]