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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is not only a leading institution in high-performance computing, but also a key driver of urban transformation. Recent announcements of...

Technological accelerationism – a philosophy of urgency that has for some time prevailed in Silicon Valley –...

A reduction in working hours is not merely a labour demand; it is an urban planning tool that ought to play a...

The advancement of a civilisation can be measured by its ability to free up time. Today, however, precarity...

Time associated with work – whether paid or unpaid – is a central aspect of how people organise their lives...

In our lives, we have to juggle two different kinds of time: the productive system’s clock time and the time...

In a celebrated lecture delivered in Madrid in 1930, the eminent economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that...

Recently, perspectives on post-work have gained attention, whether due to the anxiety of losing jobs or the optimism surrounding reduced working hours enabled by artificial...
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