Vigilància permanent — Edward Snowden
L’any 2013, Edward Snowden, responsable de la filtració d’intel·ligència més gran de la història, va sacsejar el món revelant que el govern dels Estats Units tenia la capacitat de llegir cada correu electrònic, escoltar cada trucada i entrar fins als racons més secrets de la vida privada de tots els ciutadans del món. De l’editor...
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict — Erica Chenoweth, Maria Stephan
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent...
Hola mundo: cómo seguir siendo humanos en la era de los algoritmos — Hanna Fry
Los algoritmos ya deciden, sin ayuda humana, penas de cárcel, tratamientos clínicos y hasta el destino de un coche que se dirige directo a atropellar a un niño. Un ensayo imponente que, desde las matemáticas, la sociología y los nuevos horizontes tecnológicos, proyecta un nuevo mundo. Un texto afinadísimo que no sataniza los algoritmos,...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power — Soshana Zuboff
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling...
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television — Jerry Mander
A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous — to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes — that TV ought to be eliminated forever....
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing <a...
Cosmos — Carl Sagan
Cosmos és una de les obres més destacades de la literatura internacional de divulgació científica, publicada per primera vegada en català. Una obra imprescindible d’un dels grans mestres de la divulgació, que ens endinsa en els grans enigmes que la humanitat ha tractat d’entendre i explicar des de temps inmemorial, i pels...
Antropología cultural — Marvin Harris
una perspectiva global y comparativa que nos ayuda a entender el origen y el porvenir del nuestro mundo moderno. Tocando desde los fundamentos biológicos y evolucionistas de la cultura hasta los aspectos infraestructurales, estructurales y superestructurales de los sistemas socioculturales, Marvin Harris explica por qué las costumbres y...
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism — Fred Turner
In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a...