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 […]
The essay “La viralidad del mal. Quién ha roto internet, a quién beneficia y cómo vamos a arreglarlo”, published by Descontrol Editorial in 2024, offers a detailed analysis of the deterioration of public discourse in the digital sphere and the decisive role played by major tech corporations in this process. Written by the collective Proxecto UNA, the work is situated […]
“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 […]
Digital transformation is advancing at an unstoppable pace, yet public debate about it often remains dominated by fear or uncritical opportunism. This raises a central question: is digitalization serving citizens, or is it being built on foundations that threaten fundamental rights? It is in this context that the new essay by activist and technopolitical strategist Simona Levi emerges. Simona Levi, […]
Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (2019; O Capital Morreu), by McKenzie Wark, presents a provocative hypothesis: industrial capitalism is no longer the dominant system, but has been replaced by another mode of production based on information control. Published by Verso, the essay introduces the concept of “vectoralism” to describe this new economic order. The object of the work […]
The essay explains how digitalization did not consolidate competitive capitalism but instead, according to the author, promoted monopolistic concentration and a relationship of dependency between subjects and platforms. The book details the elements —data, algorithms, and infrastructures— that shape this new social and economic organization. The central argument maintains that capital accumulation has shifted away from being primarily production-based toward […]
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, […]