An independent research space concerning contemporary issues. This is neither a formal academic publication nor an opinion column: it is analytical work supported by data on topics I consider relevant and worthy of rigorous examination, even when they fall outside specialised academic circuits. Open to co-authorship. Proposals to: hola@juanesteban.art
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Before the visit
Los museos de titularidad estatal se rigen todavía por un reglamento de 1987. En su texto vigente no aparecen las palabras «discapacidad» ni «accesibilidad». El preámbulo habla del acceso de los ciudadanos «en igualdad de condiciones en todo el territorio español». Los artículos sobre la visita regulan el horario mínimo de apertura, las condiciones de…
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Written in 2023
On 17 September 2026, a joint motion by the media outlets suing OpenAI and Microsoft was made public without its main redactions. The filing asks the judge to rule on certain issues without a trial and cites communications, presentations and testimony obtained during the proceedings. These are not findings of the court: they are materials…
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Level 4
The Science Museum Group, which brings together some of the United Kingdom's leading science museums, had a rule for accepting funding from oil and gas companies. Its sustainability policy states that it works with financiers that are on a path to decarbonisation, and to verify this, it uses an external index, that of the Transition Pathway Initiative. To…
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The scope of the grant
La exposición «La otra Transición vallisoletana», de Íñigo Varona, no abrió en el Palacio de Pimentel el 3 de septiembre de 2026. La muestra estaba montada; figuraba en la programación anual de la Diputación de Valladolid y procedía de una beca que la institución concedió en 2023 para el proyecto «Barriadas y movimiento urbano en…
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A Ceruti above a green sofa
A house in Mar del Plata is put up for sale. The estate agent photographs the rooms and publishes the images on the internet and, in one of them, an antique portrait of a lady appears hanging above a green sofa. It was easy for it to go unnoticed by anyone looking at the house, but Dutch journalists who were investigating…
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No one erased the signature
Much of the software we use is written by programmers who publish their code under open licences. A frequent condition of these licences is that copies and derivative works must retain the licence, the author's name, and the copyright notice. Attribution is part of the exchange that allows for the reuse of code. A group of…
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At the Met, to examine was also to honour
El Metropolitan Museum of Art anunció el 31 de julio de 2026 «John Galliano: Horizons», una exposición del Costume Institute prevista del 9 de mayo de 2027 al 9 de enero de 2028. Iba a coincidir con la Met Gala y habría sido la primera gran muestra museística dedicada al conjunto de su trayectoria. Un…
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From cases to guides
In this Notebook, I have written about specific cases: the Hamburg ruling that found in favour of LAION against the photographer Robert Kneschke, the United States Supreme Court ruling on the 2016 licence of a portrait of Prince that Warhol had created based on a photograph by Lynn Goldsmith, and the trademark…
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The novel read before it existed
In May 2026, an as-yet unpublished novel by Olga Tokarczuk had already been read, judged, and partially condemned. Not for its pages, which were unavailable and would remain so until the autumn, but for translated fragments of a conversation in which the author discussed the use of artificial intelligence...
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No longer banned
La imagen que tenemos de la censura es antigua: un funcionario que lee, tacha, prohíbe. Un sello de «no autorizado» sobre un guion, una obra retirada de la pared, un libro que no llega a imprenta. El censor es visible, la prohibición explícita y por eso discutible: hay algo que señalar, alguien a quien acusar,…