Conversation with Kyle Chayka

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In this live session at the CCCB, Kyle Chayka — expert in technology and culture, and journalist at The New Yorker — will talk with sociologist Liliana Arroyo about the contradictions and limits of our increasingly digitized world.

The metaverse proposed by Facebook, for example, wants to create a parallel virtual reality where everything we want is at our fingertips. But according to Chayka, the dream of an immaterial world in which we can accumulate objects and digital experiences without limit will hardly escape the logic of consumerism that have always applied to modern capitalist society.

In his book The Longing for Less (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020), Chayka rejects the siren song of digital abundance and proposes to recover the connection with the world around us through the teachings of minimalism. How can we learn to desire less in a present marked by hyperproduction and acceleration? What new forms do culture take in an increasingly technological reality?

The event will be held in Catalan and English, with simultaneous translation from the English parts of the discussion into Catalan.

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