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Thought provoking pieces of non-fiction exploring the cross-roads of technology with art and science, as well as how hard science fiction has inspired the craziest ideas of our times, for the good and the bad. The non-fiction pieces included in Could the inspiration for Kafka''s stories have come from his visits to human zoos where he saw indigenous people kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego? Can an algorithm understand the verses of Rubén Darío? Can bacteria write literature? And can a monkey reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare? These are some of the questions that run through this collection of essays, which explores the almost always ambiguous threshold that technology and culture have drawn between what is understood as human and what is not, living and;non-living, and which is the seed of the biggest questions of this century.;; From nineteenth century science fiction to contemporary art exhibitions, via a philosophical take on COVID, this book examines the impact of capitalism, indigenous extermination, medical policies in Latin America and elsewhere, in order to interrogate our very identity. In
