The impending collapse of the European Urban middle class: The European Union's de-naturing of space and place

The authors argue that the various middle classes of Europe, especially Western Europe, are being fragilised as a result of globalization, certain political tendencies and especially by the standardization of space and p...

Get real: Narrative and gameplay in The Last of Us

This essay addresses problems of ludonarrative dissonance in the 2013 video game The Last of Us. Much of the game’s production is well executed and very realistic, both in terms of graphics and storytelling; however, a f...

“Just because they’re lies doesn’t mean they’re not true”: Learning and transmission of lies among storytellers

In diverse rural communities located near the borders separating Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, traditional storytellers known as contadores de causos use lying as a strategy for their performances. Their legitimacy as s...

Bauman, Zygmunt, 2011, Culture in a Liquid Modern World, Cambridge and Malden, Polity

New affective models of knowledge transmission: The Medialab-Prado as a trading zone

This article analyzes the Medialab-Prado cultural space, located in Madrid, which is developing a project involving arts, scientific dissemination, and transmission of knowledge through digital networks and collective cu...