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“Which of you by worrying can add one hour to his life?” (Matthew 6:27) The promise of technology is always the same: to liberate time . For centuries we have been building tools to shorten work , accelerate processes, and reduce fatigue. Artificial intelligence brings this tension to a peak: it thinks, calculates, writes, and decides. It gives us back hours, and with them a subtle illusion—that of finally being able to dispose of time . But is time possessed? Or only travers

Platforms like Claude, with the new Artifacts  features (2025), have introduced the possibility for anyone to generate algorithmic art  simply by describing what they want to create. But what exactly does “algorithmic art” mean, and why does it represent something radically different? Algorithmic Art: A Work That Never Ends In the vast universe of digital art, algorithmic art occupies a unique space. The fundamental difference is not only in the creation process  but in the v

The Historical Context: Marx and the Industrial Machine When Karl Marx analyzed English industry in the latter half of the nineteenth century, he witnessed—through data, reports, and observations—an epochal transformation. Steam engines were replacing artisanal labor, mechanical looms were supplanting weavers, and entire categories of workers saw their skills rendered obsolete by automation. His analysis of this phenomenon, contained primarily in Das Kapital  (1867), was not

When in 2016 Geoffrey Hinton, one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, declared that within five years radiologists would become obsolete, it seemed an inevitable prediction. Yet, nearly ten years later, the demand for radiologists has not only not dropped, but has reached all-time highs. How is this possible? The answer lies in an economic principle formulated over 150 years ago: the Jevons paradox . What the Jevons Paradox Is In the mid-19th century, the British econo

In the art world, price is never just a number . It is a narrative . It speaks of artists' reputations, dealers' prestige, and the perceived quality of the works. It is the result—and at the same time the driving force—of a complex interplay between culture and economics. Olav Velthuis, a sociologist at the University of Amsterdam, explains this well in his book Talking Prices . His analysis overturns the common idea of the market : no longer a neutral place of exchange, but

Epistemological Anatomy of an Appeal On September 22, 2025, Maria Ressa  presented an appeal to the UN General Assembly signed by over...

Nottinghamshire, England, 1811. In the darkness of a March night, a group of textile workers bursts into a factory armed with hammers and...

Every creative act hides an ethical choice: to impose a vision or to allow something autonomous to emerge, not as a random event but as a...

Can a work of art be too provocative?  And if it originates from illegality, can it still be considered culture? These are questions that...

The emergence of artificial intelligence has brought questions normally confined to academic halls back to the center of public debate....

For sixty years we have lived under the dictatorship of the database . Every aspect of our digital existence has been shaped, deformed,...

Last night, the YouTube algorithm introduced me to a song that perfectly described a feeling I didn't even know I had. A melancholy...

The Birth of NLP: Modeling Human Excellence In the 1970s, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from the ingenuity of Richard...

In the gallery of minds that have shaped our technological era, few figures shine with the controversial and fascinating intensity of Ada...

The Primordial Language of Weaving When human hands began to weave the first threads, more than just a material support was born: one of...

Must art express truth ? This question, as simple in its formulation as it is profound in its implications, spans the entire history of...

The news is significant: on Friday, June 20, 2025, it was finally announced that VAT on art will decrease from 22% to 5% . However, among...

From simple patronage to a sophisticated marketing lever, contemporary art has become a fundamental asset in the toolkit of the most...

In 1975, a Toyota engineer named Taiichi Ohno looked at his factory's warehouses, full of unused components, and asked a question that...

On October 8, 2024, during the Festival del Presente promoted by Pandora magazine, the philosopher Massimo Cacciari delivered a master...