Etiqueta: interviews

António Damásio para JD
Entrevistas

Antonio Damasio: “The more educated we are, the more we are tolerant to people who are not in our group”

 (Versión en castellano aquí) From young António Damasio (Lisbon, 1944) interested in becoming a filmmaker to today’s neurologist and researcher expert in emotions there’s a smaller gap than what anyone could imagine. This scientist and writer has always been interested in Humanities and the study of feelings. Every single book of […]

Kim Stanley Robinson para JD 2
English, Entrevistas

Kim Stanley Robinson: “Science needs to think of itself more as a humanism and as an utopian politics”

(Versión en español) We meet with Kim Stanley Robinson (Waukegan, 1952) in Barcelona, during the annual literary convention Kosmopolis. Robinson is a respected and popular hard science fiction writer, especially known for his trilogy dealing with martian colonization and terraformation (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars). After Mars, he imagined […]

David Remnick para Jot Down
English, Entrevistas, Sociedad

David Remnick : «Let’s not to be romantic about the uniformed brilliant quality of all journalism in the pre-internet age. There was a lot of crap»

(Versión en español) The New Yorker is a temple of good journalism that manages to endure in the middle the economic and talent crisis that ravages the sector. The New Yorker, even in tough economic times, is a profitable magazine, and Remnick’s strategy is to thrive in the internet age […]