The Barcelona Network for Critical Thought and Social Research (BCNCT) stems from a theoretical and practical sense of urgency prompted by the accelerated crises of the present. Its purpose is to engage critically with the tensions and contradictions of our time and envision alternative societal models. It brings together scholars and activists across diverse disciplines, methodologies, and academic institutions.
Located in Barcelona, BCNCT draws inspiration from a rich history of emancipatory movements (sexual, cultural, economic, political, ecological) in Catalonia and beyond. Today, Barcelona is also a reference point for critical social experimentation.
2025 March 7 – Social Pathologies: A Concept for Criticism – a seminar with Frederick Neuhouser
Since Plato’s time, the polis has been conceived as a body that could be sick. In modern thought, this organicist conception has been revised, although some elements have been retained in the thought of authors such as Rousseau, Spencer, Durkheim,…
2025 March 6 – Inaugural Lecture BCNCT – Frederick Neuhouser (University of Columbia), Inequality. A Contemporary Pathology, CCCB.
In recent decades, economic inequality has increased at an alarming rate across most of the planet. In this session, philosopher Frederick Neuhouser offers a critical analysis of rising inequality and argues why it is a factor of particular concern. Neuhouser…
2024 Nov 21 – Workshop “Crítica i crisi”
BNCT Symposium (UOC Open University of Barcelona): Images, Crisis, and Ecosocial Transformations in the 21st Century.Imágenes, crisis y transformaciones ecosociales en el siglo XXI Coordinators: Ignasi Salellas (UOC) & Camil Ungureanu (UPF, BCNT)Universitat Oberta de Catalunya21 de noviembre, Edifici U,…
2024 Oct 25 – Book symposium “Carbon Societies: The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels” by Peter Wagner
What has gone wrong?
What is to be done?
A debate with Peter Wagner on his
Carbon Societies: "The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels (Polity 2024)"
2024 Oct 24 – Symposium “Les ustopies com a dispositius polítics”
Symposium “Les ustopies com a dispositius polítics” at the Institute of Catalan Studies, Barcelona.
2024 Oct 23 – Debate “Artificial Intelligence : Ethics, Politics, and Social Change”
Debate: Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Politics, and Social Change. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Co-ordinators: Camil Ungureanu (BCNT) and Laila Vivas (BC3).