Pantailen garaipena

I could say that Iñigo Martinez Peña has a sharp eye and that he offers us an incredible picture of our society, but I prefer to say that he has a fine sense of smell. And it cannot be denied: the society we live in has a bad smell. As you progress through the book, the stench: power wants us to be completely transparent, even though power itself will never be transparent; our streets and workplaces are full of video surveillance and we are constantly being spied on; we prefer to follow the path by sticking to the GPS, rather than asking someone nearby where what we are looking for is; the excessive lighting of the streets affects the quality of our sleep, among other things; when we arrive at a new landscape or place, we insist on photographing it, forgetting to enjoy the moment; we try to predict the determinism of human behavior, terrified of the responsibility that comes with making decisions. We live in a crazy kaleidoscope. In the lines of the book, however, there is no nostalgia for lost paradises, no desire to return to past times: all times have their light and darkness, their perfumes and smells. This is what suits us. The key is to look at it and change it: how can we make this world we live in more livable? How to recover, beyond the eye, the whole body? How to get the strength of the community? The right to be forgotten? Representing all possible futures? How to break the paths of decisions and responsibilities? Of trust? How to continue the conversation? (from the foreword by Olatz Mitxelena)