Doctor, what's happening to Barcelona? Jordi Amat, who isn't a doctor but makes astute diagnoses, seeks answers to the sense of loss that has been taking hold in the city for years and is escalating into a full-blown revolt. Loss of the right to housing, loss of identity and civic vitality, loss of a collective project—in short, democratic loss. He explores this in his essay The Battles of Barcelona (Edicions 62), a personal journey through cultural imaginaries—literature, film, music—over the last fifty years. At the book's official launch at the Academy of Fine Arts, the institution that awarded him its prize for humanistic essays, historian Borja de Riquer and philosopher Josep Ramoneda were present this Thursday.