Marta Peirano

Marta Peirano is a Spanish thinker specialising in technology and power. Her most recent books are ‘The Little Red Book of Online Activism’, an essay about cryptography with a foreword by Edward Snowden; and ‘The enemy knows the system’ on digital feudalism and political manipulation online. She is a guest researcher at the Spanish Centre for National Defence Studies and works for Spanish media outlets including El Pais, La Sexta TV, Muy Interesante and Radio Nacional de España. As an international public speaker, she has been a long time advocate of free software, digital privacy and the radical decentralisation of critical infrastructure. In the last year, she was tech curator at Barcelona's Biennale of Thought and creator of Aksioma's The (re)programming series, an extended festival of conversations with world class thinkers about strategies for the self-renewal of a planet on fire. Marta lives in Madrid and has a part-time dog.