CRONENBERG’S MUTATIONS Article by Eduardo Carli de Moraes PROLOGUE I have recently spent a whole afternoon wandering around at the Evolution exhibition, wonderfully produced by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It was such an amazing tribute to one of Canada’s greatest artists alive, David Cronenberg. I was already...
WAYS OF SEEING By John Berger (1972) A BAFTA award-winning series with John Berger, which rapidly became regarded as one of the most influential art programmes ever made. With the invention of oil paint around 1400, painters were able to portray people and objects with an unprecedented degree of...
A punkish provocation from one of the greatest stand-up comedians. Drawn up by the Zen Pencils. To shake off your apathy, turn off your cellphone and gizmos… and listen to the man: Visualizações da publicação: 369
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) Access his complete works website Other posters with Emerson’s quotes @ Zen Pencils: Visualizações da publicação: 326
Some of Carl Sagan’s most well-known and inspiring ideas, concerning the minuteness of our tiny planet when compared to the vastness of the cosmos, have been beatifully drawn by Zen Pencils. Click here to access this great visual representation of Sagan’s insightful and poetic words. Below, this Awestruck Wanderer shares...
RIFLES Based on Bertolt Brecht’s Señora Carrar’s Rifles Written by Nicolas Billon and directed by Michael Wheeler. Cast: Kate Hennig, Ben Sanders, Cyrus Lane, Araya Mengesha and more. Seen at The Next Stage Theatre Festival,January 18th, at The Factory Theatre in Toronto. Article by Eduardo Carli de Moraes: Bertolt Brecht‘s work is...
“Few forces in the world are as potent, as influential, as religion. As we struggle to resolve the terrible economical and social inequities that currently disfigure our planet, and minimize the violence and degradation we see, we have to recognize that if we have a blind spot about religion...
O sociólogo franco-brasileiro Michael Löwy, um dos maiores pesquisadores da obra de Walter Benjamin, esteve no Brasil em 2013 para debater “O capitalismo como religião”, livro de ensaios inéditos de Walter Benjamin, organizado e comentado por Löwy. No dia 25 de outubro, ele se reuniu com a psicanalista Maria...
ESCOLARIZANDO O MUNDO Completo e legendado em português: http://youtu.be/6t_HN95-Urs Site oficial do documentário: http://schoolingtheworld.org/ Sinopse: “O filme examina o pressuposto escondido da superioridade cultural por trás dos projetos de ajuda educacionais, que, no discurso, procuram ajudar crianças a “escapar” para uma...