Democracy: Combat or debate

Jorge Volpi, Cristian Canton and Sira Abenoza

Moderator: Marta Nin i Camps

What influence can fiction, chronicles, essays and poetry have on the democratic health of our societies? How are algorithms limiting democracy? This panel reflects on the fragility of the twenty-first-century democratic model, which, like social media, often repeats and amplifies the tribal, polarised formula in the real world. We are living in a time when many citizens prioritise safer over more democratic societies based on the prerogative of voting. Writer Jorge Volpi, philosopher Sira Abenoza and researcher Cristian Canton discuss this topic.