¿Por qué hemos normalizado que el conocimiento universal se esté privatizando? Esta es una de las dudas, y alertas, que recorre el último Premio Anagrama de Ensayo, que en su edición número 54 ha premiado al investigador Xavier Nueno (Barcelona, 36 años). El doctor en Estudios Visuales y de Medios por la Universidad de Harvard y profesor en Lausana se ha hecho con los 10.000 euros del galardón con La revuelta de los copistas. Cómo el conocimiento perdió el juicio, una reflexión sobre la capitalización del saber y cómo los gigantes tecnológicos están robando el bien común de las bibliotecas para vendérnoslo a través de suscripciones a la IA. El texto llegará a librerías este miércoles 21 de octubre.

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Her life could inspire one of those biopics about personal triumph, but Jahel Queralt, 43, says her fate is pure chance. The jurist, PhD and professor of political law at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona went from growing up in an isolated house without water or electricity to feeling “like you’ve gatecrashed a party in the wrong shoes” when she arrived in the world of academia. It happened in 2007, in Oxford, when she met Gerald A. Cohen, a leading figure in analytical Marxism and one of the mentors of her theses. He was so approachable that the young woman let her guard down while eating with the other fellows in the All Souls dining hall, inside the most elitist of the Oxford colleges. There she uttered the forbidden word that starts with F: “You do this in Spain and you are totally fucked,” she stated, and immediately heard the rest of the diners clear their throats. People still ask her at parties if she is “the girl who said fucked in the All Souls dining hall.” That, she says near her son’s public school a few yards from the Barcelona zoo, is what happens when “you learned English watching The Wire.”

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