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Technological Sovereignty is a collective book that starts with a simple but powerful question: who controls the technologies we use every day, and for what purposes? Coordinated by Alex Haché and written by diverse voices from free software, decentralized networks, digital security, and tech culture, it offers a critical reflection on the social, political, economic, and ecological constraints of current […]

Recovering Memory to Rebuild the Collective Network Body text (1,828 characters, 7 paragraphs): The history of the internet told from below is not a story of technology, but of collective struggle. Marta G. Franco, in her book “Las redes son nuestras. Una historia popular de internet y un mapa para volver a habitarla” (“The Networks Are Ours: A People’s History […]

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, […]

The book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019), by Professor Emerita Shoshana Zuboff, is a fundamental analysis of the power of data-mining technologies. Published at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the book emerged as a response to the collusion between corporations like Google and Facebook and government agencies to commodify human experience. Zuboff documents in the book how, […]

We announce the launch of a new book. Democracia Secuestrada: Ameazas Globais e Autodefensa (Hijacked Democracy. Global Threats and Self-Defence) is a compilation of the texts developed by each and every one of the speakers at the conference of the same name, which took place in Vigo from 15 to 18 March 2023. Today’s world is characterised by a global […]

Today is an important date. On February 21, 1848 (date accepted by the majority of historians) the Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (or Manifest of the Communist Party) was published, the work written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that would become one of the most important political, economic and sociological documents of all time. The influence of this writing of […]

On this day 553 years ago, the death of Johannes Gutenberg took place in Mainz, the goldsmith who went down in history as the inventor of the modern movable type printing press (an invention, without a doubt, fundamental for the dissemination of knowledge). This fact caused that, five centuries later, the number of writers, readers, publishers, librarians, booksellers and lovers […]