

Fri, Jan 23
|Barcelona
Critical Readings Book Club
Dialogues across modern and contemporary classics
Time & Location
Jan 23, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Barcelona, Carrer de Mallorca, 330, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
About the event
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This month we will be reading Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. Paired with Byung-Chul Han's The Burnout Society.
This book club approaches foundational texts that have shaped the past three centuries through a cross-disciplinary reading series that invites us to engage with the questions of our present. Each session pairs one of these works with a strictly contemporary text (as an optional reading), creating a dialogue in which the past becomes a lens for thinking the present, and vice versa. No academic background is required; curiosity and openness are all you need.
Hosted by Josefina Alippi