
Marta Peirano Journalist
Writer and journalist. Marta Peirano is a columnist at El País, runs a technology section in RNE. She co-founded Hack Hackers Berlin and Copyfight Berlin, co-directed Copyfight, served as Head of Culture at ADN.es, was deputy director at eldiario.es, Technology Commissioner for the Barcelona Thought Biennale, and a member of the cyber defense working group at CESEDEN. She directed (re)programming – Strategies for Self-Renewal, an interview program about technology and climate change at the Ljubljana Contemporary Art Institute, and Deep Journalism, a seminar on the new journalism at Medialab-Matadero (Madrid). Her publications include El Rival de Prometeo, a manual of illustrious automatons; The Little Red Book of the Network Activist (Rocaeditorial, 2015), foreword by Edward Snowden, and The Enemy Knows the System (Debate, 2019), an essay on surveillance capitalism linking our addiction to mobile phones with the data extraction industry and its role as a tool for mass control and manipulation. Her latest books are Against the Future (Debate, 2022), a critical analysis of climate technologies and apocalyptic narratives, and (re)programming, a book of conversations with thinkers and visionaries about alternatives to the end of the world (Aksioma, 2022).