Category: Cuaderno público

  • Banksy before the EUIPO: two readings of anonymity

    Banksy before the EUIPO: two readings of anonymity

    In February 2014, Pest Control Office, the company holding the trademarks linked to Banksy, applied for the image of the flower thrower as a European Union trademark: the figure of a protester throwing a bouquet. On 14 September 2020, the Cancellation Division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office…

  • The Druet-Cattelan case: the question the court did not answer

    The Druet-Cattelan case: the question the court did not answer

    Several of Maurizio Cattelan's most celebrated works feature wax figures at their centre that were modelled by another man. The figure of John Paul II lying beneath a meteorite, the kneeling child with the face of Hitler, Cattelan himself suspended from a coat hanger: those effigies were modelled by Daniel Druet, a French sculptor at the…

  • Who can be seen

    Who can be seen

    In 2017, researchers attempted something simple: to ascertain the origin of the photographs used to train image recognition systems. They took ImageNet, one of the datasets that defined the development of contemporary computer vision, and examined, among the images whose origin they could trace, which country had operated the camera.…

  • Eight plus four

    Eight plus four

    In museums across the world, there are many of Rodin's Thinkers. Not pirated copies or imitations: fine bronzes in serious collections, all originating from the same model. The question of which is the original does not have the answer one expects; and determining why necessitates examining how a sculpture is manufactured and, in particular, who decides…

  • The work that sustains culture and appears in no data

    The work that sustains culture and appears in no data

    In any organisation, there is work that sustains it and which is almost entirely unrecognised: taking the minutes of a meeting; organising an encounter; accompanying a new arrival; mediating a conflict that was becoming entrenched; remembering birthdays, that supplies need replenishing, that a certain person…

  • Who vouches on digital platforms

    Who vouches on digital platforms

    Desde hace unas semanas participo como verificador en la plataforma Eurosky/mu.social. La fundación que presido, Kripties, ha sido designada verificadora de confianza en la red social europea. Ahora puedo poner junto a la cuenta de otra persona una marca que dice «esta cuenta es quien dice ser». Lo cuento con ilusión y, precisamente por eso,…

  • Culture in Málaga and the distribution of duration

    Culture in Málaga and the distribution of duration

    Propiedad, decisión y trabajo cultural en Málaga. De la serie iniciada en «Contra la vida optimizada». Este texto se centra en Málaga, pero no parte de que Málaga sea una anomalía. Durante las últimas décadas muchas ciudades han integrado la cultura en estrategias de regeneración urbana, competencia territorial, atracción turística y construcción de marca. La…

  • Faster than the courts

    Faster than the courts

    En febrero de 2025 más de seis mil personas, la mayoría artistas, firmaron una carta pidiendo a Christie’s que cancelara una subasta. La casa iba a vender, por primera vez en una venta entera dedicada a ello, obra hecha con inteligencia artificial, y la carta denunciaba que muchas de esas piezas se habían creado con…

  • Against the optimised life: which forms of culture resist incorporation

    Against the optimised life: which forms of culture resist incorporation

    En The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart, Jay Caspian Kang parte de una anomalía deportiva para describir una transformación moral más amplia. En la NBA, algunos equipos pierden a propósito porque el sistema de incentivos convierte la derrota presente en ventaja futura. La práctica no es nueva; lo decisivo es que ya no…

  • The system or willpower

    The system or willpower

    Si un adolescente pasa seis horas al día en el teléfono, la conversación pública sabe de quién es la culpa. Suya, por no tener disciplina. O de sus padres, por no ponerle límites. La solución que se propone es siempre del mismo tamaño que el culpable señalado: más fuerza de voluntad, más control parental, una…

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