No. 19 (2021): Humanity and Uncertaninty

With these lines we want to present this new volume 19 of the ASRI magazine. Art and Society. It is difficult to evade the events that we are experiencing due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that affects all orders of our lives in very different ways. For this reason, and despite the difficulties of all kinds, we are very pleased to present this number that, in a certain way, aspires to the continuation and normality so longed for. As we pointed out in this issue's call for contributions, it's all happening very fast. Virilio's concept of acceleration –and the global accident– have taken shape on a planetary scale, so that the pandemic has placed us at the same time and globally in a multitude of spaces and places, including the spaces of thinking and writing. From the research objectives of the ASRI magazine, we have wanted to join it by inviting authors to reflect and give a place or an attempted response, through art and the humanities, to everything that, in a digital existence , still constitutes us as human beings. Thus, this 19th issue of ASRI magazine. Arte y Sociedad has a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary vocation that we can find in the twelve contributions of this number and that are presented in the form of articles, essays and results of different artistic practices, and that make it a volume open to digital humanism. We do not want to finish without especially thanking all those people who have been part of this volume for their work, either in the authorship, or in the revision or editing of this issue: despite the numerous difficulties that we are encountering day by day, all of them have made a beautiful collaborative effort and have been able to find small –or big– moments to continue building these places where, once again, we can meet.

Editorial coordination: Elena Battaner and Juan Alonso Iniesta

Direction and editing: José Ramón Alcalá and Tomás Zarza