Enrique Dans in conversation with José Félix Valdivieso

Culture doesn’t live in an ivory tower, it’s a street weapon, like technology. Both are dual, like today's digital products. They can be used to call your mom, or trigger a military objective. This is the New Cultural Revolution of China & Co., making us all barbarians. Culture and technology are soft power spearheads, born in the USA. They are the faithful squires of hard power – economy and armies. Technology can be a military as well as a cultural weapon. From this perspective, two polemicists, Enrique Dans and José Félix Valdivieso, will try to shed light on the barbaric technological nature of culture.

There is no technology issue that Enrique Dans has not touched. His blog >ED is among the most read in the world. He is also the author of the bestseller Todo vuelve a cambiar ('Everything Changes Again'). José Félix Valdivieso is the author of several books of poetry, short stories and graffiti. His essay China para los nuevos bárbaros ('China for the New Barbarians') was chosen as Book of the Week by leading Spanish dailies El País and El Mundo.