“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

“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

(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

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

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: 455

Publicado em: 30/01/14

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...

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

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...

Publicado em: 25/01/14

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...

Publicado em: 23/01/14

Artigo de André Bazin (1918-1958) sobre Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) (em inglês) Visualizações da publicação: 378

Publicado em: 21/01/14