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Claudia Aranda

Chilean journalist specializing in Semiotics and Political Analysis. As an international analyst, she focuses on prospective analysis of social processes. Based in Montreal, Quebec, she covers news for Pressenza and explores contemporary philosophical debates within the context of current events. Her work emphasizes human rights, geopolitics, armed conflict, the environment, and technological development. She is a humanist and an activist for social justice causes.

What I Didn’t Publish

Thinking with Zahavy and Looking a Little Further By Claudia Aranda and LumusAI I would have made more money from what I never published than from everything I have published in twenty-five years of professional journalism. The sentence may lend…

The Ball and the Mirror

Letter back to Mark Zuckerberg, who wrote to the whole world in order to look at no one. I return to you your favorite word, that “everyone,” and with it I turn the planet around —from China to America, counterclockwise—…

The Paradox of the Bionic Wall: Mediocre Protectionism and Hegemonic Self-Quarantine

Farce (from Lat. sagina, fattening; fig. a short, comical play): A dramatic work of a grotesque, ridiculous, and exaggerated nature that seeks easy laughter through the caricature of its characters. A noisy staging, characterized by feigned solemnity but lacking substance,…

The blind spot: Peri, meno and postmenopause adrift in Quebec

How half of the adult population goes through half of their lives —from the age of forty— within a process that their own physicians were not trained to see. Let us remember the obvious: more than half of adults are…

China’s Sun: Between Record and Reality

China has just completed the largest superconducting magnet ever built for a fusion reactor and is preparing a machine that will attempt to generate electricity by 2030. But it has not ignited a star, it does not yet have an…

Are we going to sit around waiting for the news of his death?

A tortured pediatrician in an Israeli prison, a Chilean abstention that breaks thirty years of history, and a question at La Moneda that no one wants to answer: when did we stop being the country of “never again”? His name…

The Loop

This week a photo arrived. Three masked soldiers standing before a gate blackened by fire, rifles crossed over their chests, and above them the headline of a Turkish news agency: Israel raided a United Nations (UN) centre, fired tear gas…

Doctors Without Borders and the staging of the ceasefire

Come, I’ll buy you a coffee. What they call a truce is structural violence under another name, and I want us to look together at how the staging is put together. You, who paused here. In the midst of everything…

The Beginning of a New Technological Era: The Week the Markets Discovered That China Is No Longer Chasing the West

The technology news of the past 48 hours does not amount to a string of isolated events. Taken together, it represents one of the most significant shifts in perception since ChatGPT’s public breakthrough in 2022. As markets react nervously, the…

The Ant’s Path: China Answers the Chip Blockade with Asia’s Largest Market Debut

The memory chipmaker CXMT soared 466% in its Shanghai Stock Exchange debut and became, in a single session, the most valuable company listed in mainland China. The scene repeats a familiar pattern: every time the United States raises a technological…

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