“What Is It Like To Be A Bat?” by Eduardo Carli de Moraes In one of the greatest essays in his book Mortal Questions, Thomas Nagel invites us to reflect in a daring and innovative way, as awe-inspiring as the best Science Fiction films or novels. Forget about mankind for a while and...
“To kill oblivion with a little memory, we cover our chests with lead and hope.” SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN). In: ‘Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings’, Foreword: José Saramago (Nobel Prize In Literature) Published by Seven Stories Press (New York, 2003, Pg. 100.) PART I...
CHAPTER III – THE CLASH BETWEEN OBLIVION AND MEMORY “…there once was a man named Zapata who rose up with his people and sang out: ‘Land and Freedom!’ The campesinos say that Zapata didn’t die, that he must return… They say that hope is also planted and harvested. They also...
Viveiros de Castro: “Houve uma espécie de opção política forçada do PT, segundo a qual a única maneira de melhorar a renda dos pobres é não mexer na renda dos ricos. Ou seja, vamos ter que tirar o dinheiro de outro lugar. E de onde é que eles estão...
Agrarian Leader Zapata (1931) “Emiliano Zapata, a champion of agrarian reform and a key protagonist in the Mexican Revolution, here leads a band of peasant rebels armed with makeshift weapons, including farming tools. With the bridle of a majestic white horse in his hand, Zapata stands triumphantly beside the...
“The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away. To define force – it is that X that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to...
Respeitosamente vândala Confira, na íntegra, a entrevista com a pensadora e ativista Ivana Bentes, publicada na CULT 188 http://revistacult.uol.com.br/home/2014/03/respeitosamente-vandala/ “As periferias são laboratórios de mundos e a riqueza do Brasil. Não mais os pobres assujeitados e excluídos de certo imaginário e discurso, mas uma ciberperiferia, a riqueza da pobreza...
COSMOS RELOADED Eduardo Carli de Moraes “L’infinie variété des formes sous lesquelles la matière nous apparaît, elle ne les emprunte pas à un autre être, elle ne les reçoit pas du dehors, mais elle les tire d’elle-même, elle les fait sortir de son propre sein. La matière est en...
7 Come, fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly – and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing. * * * * 12 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,...
“It was the only successful slave insurrection in history. It grasped the full meaning of French revolutionary ideas — liberté, equalité, fraternité — and used them to create the world’s first Black republic. It changed the trajectory of colonial economics. “It” was the Haitian Revolution, a movement that’s been...