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The Conquest of America and the Imperialist Siphon – A remembrance of past deeds in History with Galeano, Todorov, Clastres, Berger & Fanon
The Conquest of America and the Imperialist Siphon Eduardo Carli de Moraes “In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from...
Publicado em: 13/03/14
Nietzsche’s Zarathustra by George Brandes (1842-1927): “A book that is bright in its joy of life, dark in its riddles, a book for spiritual mountain-climbers and dare-devils…”
“Among Nietzsche’s works there is a strange book which bears the title Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It consists of 4 parts, written during the years 1883-85, each part in about 10 days, and conceived chapter by chapter on long walks – “with a feeling of inspiration, as though each sentence had been...
Publicado em: 24/02/14
Claude Lévi-Strauss Por Ele Mesmo (Documentário Completo)
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
Alan Watts (1915-1973): Mystical Experience & Psychedelics [full article]
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
Especial Simone Weil (1909-1943) – Bio por Christopher Benfey e vários e-books pra baixar
“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
Language will outlive us – By Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
“A poet always knows that what in the vernacular is called the voice of the Muse is, in reality, the dictate of language; that it’s not the language that happens to be his instrument, but that he is language’s mean toward the continuation of its existence. Language, however, even...
Publicado em: 05/02/14
As mutações de David Cronenberg: um tributo a um dos maiores artistas do cinema
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...
Publicado em: 30/01/14
Série da BBC completa, “Ways of Seeing” (de John Berger, 1972, 4 episódios) – Uma visão crítica do mundo das artes plásticas
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
