MasksÁlvaro de Campos and the wrong domino: they take us for someone we are not, we let it stand, and one day the mask is stuck to the face.
Gaseous consciousnessA short literary piece on blank screens, borrowed attention and a consciousness that shifts between gas, liquid and solid over a single working day.
LayersCollars, ties, uniforms and jerseys as shells of metamorphosis: the layers we put on to move between the person we are and the character we perform.
The valleyA literary piece on Silicon Valley: binary idols, the semiconductor as totem, and the moment silicon revealed itself as silicone under our fingers.
Books of the month — February 2024Three books, briefly reviewed: Fernando Bermejo on the invention of Jesus of Nazareth, Watterson and Kascht's The Mysteries, and Bobin's Le murmure.
Books of the month — January 2024Five books, briefly reviewed: Karl Sigmund on the Vienna Circle, Hanno Sauer, Alizée Delpierre, Thomas Bernhard, and Spiegelhalter's The Art of Statis...
Books of the month — October 2023Five books, briefly reviewed: Sergio del Molino's Un tal González, Ignatieff's Fire and Ashes, Luis Miller on polarisation, Ellenberg's Shape, and poe...
Books of the month — September 2023Six books, briefly reviewed: Mendoza's Riña de gatos, España mágica, Apprenticeship Patterns, Insectpedia, Canavaggio's Cervantes and The Power of Str...
Books of the month — June 2023Five books, briefly reviewed: Philip K. Dick's Ubik, Feynman's Lectures on Computation, Jeff Hawkins, Ian Hacking, and Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary.
Books of the month — April 2023Five books, briefly reviewed: Houellebecq, Aramburu, Peter Medawar's science essays, Marcet and García on humanist management, and Torretti on set the...
Books of the month — March 2023Four books, briefly reviewed: Padura's Personas decentes, Steiner's Lessons of the Masters, Ziman's Real Science, and Duncan's Index, A History of the...
SeriesA short literary piece: an ibuprofen leaflet, a science that grounds its honesty in warnings, and a note on consciousness as the interpolation of a se...
Books of the month — January 2023Four books, briefly reviewed: Houellebecq's Annihilation, Arturo Barea's The Forging of a Rebel, Jorge Wagensberg, and Carlos Elías on digital civilis...
Books of the month — December 2022Four books, briefly reviewed: Johan Anderberg's The Herd, Frans de Waal's The Age of Empathy, Amalia Bautista's poetry, and Stillwell on geometry.
A modern personA modern person looks for virtue in a single click and finds a spam folder instead, a sunken galleon holding everything he had chosen to forget.
Books of the month — October 2022Five books, briefly reviewed: Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Kiko Llaneras on thinking clearly, Isabelle Stengers, Joseph Henrich, and the flaws of science...
I can hear you growingA short literary piece: hours stolen from the adult world, a name the mouth cannot say, and a hand that will not be let go so the hearing can continue...
Books of the month — September 2022Seven books, briefly reviewed: Patxo Unzueta on football, Mintzberg, Víctor Lapuente, Rosa Montero, Padura, Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley, and Nussbaum...
The magic beansOgres with hearts of stone, and five months spent building a ship for a world without water before reality taught the team what waste really costs.
Foreign bodiesShopping carts out of place, electric scooters and Zappos's taste for weirdness: on foreign bodies and the rules governing the geometry of daily life.
Books of the month — June 2022Five books, briefly reviewed: Muriel Barbery's Gourmet Rhapsody, Stendhal, Martha Nussbaum, Luis Landero, and Donella Meadows's Thinking in Systems.
Perfection is the returnA literary piece about a man who cannot connect the dots of his life or build a system of beliefs, until an ancient intuition finally lodges in him.
Books of the month — May 2022Five books, briefly reviewed: Luis Landero, Camus's The Stranger, Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, Padura, and David Eagleman's Incognito.
