“Old habits die hard”, so the saying goes. It may be said that here lies one of the explanations for why comedy and tragedy are both so abundand in human existence: our psyches have a tendency to stick to behaviours learnt in the past, while the challenges we have...

Publicado em: 11/02/14

FRANTZ FANON (1925-1961), “The Wretched of the Earth”, Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, Download free e-book * * * * * Synopsis: “A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial...

Publicado em: 11/02/14

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Publicado em: 11/02/14

TEMPLES – Sun Structures (2014) Download: http://bit.ly/NaQAQB Psychedelic Rock / UK MP3 – 320 kbps 00:52:55 “After a steady build up of stateside buzz and support, Kettering, England’s favorite psychedelic sons Temples are announcing their debut full-length, Sun Structures, out February 11th on Fat Possum. It’s a record that’s destined to set out the band’s...

Publicado em: 11/02/14

“Most of human life”, Simone Weil wrote in her essay on The Iliad, “takes place far from hot baths”, but her own discomforts were mainly self-inflicted. She was born in Paris in 1909 into an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family. (…) Simone Weil was a gifted child, graduating first in...

Publicado em: 08/02/14

“Man as an organism is to the world outside like a whirlpool is to a river: man and world are a single natural process, but we are behaving as if we were invaders and plunderers in a foreign territory. For when the individual is defined and felt as the...

Publicado em: 08/02/14

Black Venus: a ferida exposta do racismo ‘civilizado’ por Gisele Toassa Muitos filmes já me incomodaram. A maioria na juventude, quando a novidade nos apanha facilmente – seja por meio de um final inusitado, do desafio às nossas crenças fundamentais, a sexualidade exposta nos seus aspectos menos compreensíveis e...

Publicado em: 05/02/14

“In 1968 dread was the currency. It was what kept you up all night, and not just the night Bobby Kennedy was shot… Dread was why every day could feel like a trap. (…) The feeling that the country was coming apart – that, for what looked and felt like...

Publicado em: 05/02/14

I’m a huge fan of Morphine (I mean the band, not the drug). Albums like Cure for Pain (1993) and Yes (1995) became some of my most cherished companions since the day I’ve discovered them. And more than a decade listening to them have not diminished the excitement those songs – and that...

Publicado em: 05/02/14

(Via Awestruck Wanderer) Fellow earthlings! Many among us are surrounded by images of Photoshoped, Barbiesque, and very highly-paid top-models. Many of us have the unfortunate luck to be surrounded by an army of ads and its insistent and annoying injunctions: “Buy! Own! Consume! Work! Obey! Enrich! Just do it!”...

Publicado em: 05/02/14