Open cityRefugee cities: an alternative?

Just as borders are accepted as an inevitable part of our reality, it seems increasingly difficult to imagine a migration policy that doesn’t involve an unyielding defence of the...

Participants al concurs de travestits Miss Barri Xino de 1934, imatge reproduïda al llibre La Criolla. La puerta dorada del Barrio Chino.
Return to China Town

Historia y leyenda del Barrio Chino (The History and Legends of China Town) (La Campana, 1966), by Paco Villar, is a singular book to which this return to the topic has now been...

Retrat de Josep Maria Antó © Pere Virgili
“Our health and that of the environment go together”

Josep Maria Antó, Director of Science at the Barcelona Institute of Global Health

A sword of Damocles hangs over the head of today's generations: the deterioration of the environment and climate change. The impact on human health of all this environmental turbulence...

Il·lustració. Retrat de Roberto Esposito © Guillem Cifré
Roberto Esposito: from the impolitical to the impersonal

According to Esposito, the impolitical implies that there is no other reality than that of power, without this involving either a defence or a condemnation of power, so much as the...

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