This month of May Ingrid Guardiola (Girona, 1980) will close her period as director of the Bòlit Centre for Contemporary Art in Girona. She will do so after four very intense and fruitful years, in which she has carried out a host of exhibitions and activities on different burning issues of contemporary society, always exhibiting interesting pieces and with a very critical and powerful discursive line. Despite the unequivocally positive results, Guardiola has decided not to opt for renewal: exhausted by bureaucracy, procedures and the enormous amount of paperwork she has to deal with on a daily basis, she prefers to step away, at least for a while, from the management of a public institution of this magnitude. Her last months as director of the Girona contemporary art museum coincide with the publication of her second essay, The servitude of protocols (Arcadia), in which she reflects, forcefully but not fatalistically, on how the system of rules, conventions, patterns and algorithms determine our conduct and perception. Drawing on a wide range of philosophical and sociological references such as Foucault, Deleuze, Marcuse, Kracauer and Shoshana Zuboff, the book lucidly addresses the ecosystem of daily and specific protocols that, in the era of social networks, information technology and technology, affect us and affect us.