* * * * * ANGELA DAVIS in The Meaning of Freedom. * * * * * “Beware of those leaders and theorists who eloquently rage against white supremacy but identify black gay men and lesbians as evil incarnate. Beware of those leaders who call upon us to...

Publicado em: 18/02/14

Claude Lévi-Strauss Par Lui-Même  (Pierre-Andre Boutang, 2008)  “No doubt we take comfort in the dream that equality and fraternity will one day reign among men, without compromising their diversity.” – Lévi-Strauss, Race and Culture SYNOPSIS: This film recounts the extraordinary career path of Claude Lévi-Strauss, the father of structural...

Publicado em: 14/02/14

Psychedelics and Religious Experience by Alan Watts The experiences resulting from the use of psychedelic drugs are often described in religious terms. They are therefore of interest to those like myself who, in the tradition of William James, are concerned with the psychology of religion. For more than thirty...

Publicado em: 14/02/14

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

“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

(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

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...

Publicado em: 30/01/14

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: 485

Publicado em: 30/01/14

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: 488

Publicado em: 30/01/14

“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...

Publicado em: 30/01/14