Storytelling / Fictional entities
Mais sobre Yuval Noah Harari
"Human rights, is just like heaven or like god. It's just a fictional story that we have invented and spread around. [...] Israel,
the US, are just stories. Very powerful stories. Stories we might want
to believe very much. But still they are just stories. [...] But
the most successful story of all, is probably the story of money. Which
is one of the main foundations of our economic system. ... But them
comes along one of the master storytellers: the bankers, the financial
ministers, the prime ministers, the presidents, and they tell a very
convincing story. [...] And money is the most successful story of all because it is the only story everybody believes. [...] The very survival of rivers and trees and lions and chimpanzees, today depends on the wishes and decisions of fictional entities like the US or like Google, or like the world bank.Entities that, in fact, exist only in our common imagination."
Yuval Noah Harari
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Comer animais
"Humans are great at saying NO to things that they really want. That's
what distinguishes us. That's what makes us different from animals."
Jonathan Safran Foer
Comer Animais: o livro
Encarando a perspectiva de ter de explicar por que razão comemos uns animais e não outros, Foer dispôs-se a explorar as origens de muitas tradições alimentares e as ficções que ajudaram a criá-las. Viajando para os recantos mais escuros dos nossos hábitos alimentares, Foer levanta a questão silenciosa que está por trás de cada peixe que comemos, de cada frango que fritamos e de cada hambúrguer que grelhamos. Em parte memórias e em parte relatório de investigação, Comer Animais é um livro que, nas palavras do Los Angeles Times, senta Jonathan Safran Foer «à mesa com os nossos melhores filósofos».
Ao contrário da maioria dos outros livros sobre o assunto, Comer Animais também explora as possibilidades para aqueles que comem carne, para que o façam com mais responsabilidade, fazendo deste um livro importante não apenas para vegetarianos, mas para qualquer pessoa que esteja preocupada com as ramificações e o significado do seu estilo de vida."
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The Human Brain Project
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Verdades / addiction is about your cage / it's about bonding
O link ao artigo, aqui
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da condição humana
"Laborar significava ser escravizado pela necessidade, escravidão esta inerente às condições da vida humana. Pelo facto de estarem sujeitos às necessidades da vida, os homens só podiam conquistar a liberdade subjugando outros, que pela força, submetiam à necessidade. A degradação do escravo era um rude golpe do destino, um fado pior que a morte, por implicar a transformação do homem em algo semelhante a um animal doméstico. [...] Ao contrário do que ocorreu nos tempos modernos, a instituição da escravidão na antiguidade não foi uma forma de obter mão-de-obra barata nem instrumento de exploração para fins de lucro, mas sim a tentativa de excluir o labor das condições de vida humana."
Hanna Arendt, A Condição Humana
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Entrevista a Ray Kurzweil
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Klecksography
By Olivier Valsecchi
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The thinking eye
Pensar com os olhos
"A good
practice is to see as artists claim they see. Our only language is
vision, they say. To see with vacation eyes, as we arrive in a new
place. Bright eyed. To see all kinds of things for a few days, at least.
Once you have a point of view, however, almost all you're seeing will
back you up. Pre-installed narratives, pictures, categories, stale
metaphors, reminiscences, disciplinary deformation, turfy professional
chauvinism, all interfere with how and what we see."
Edward Tufte
Sarah Nery S Chaves, in Encontrar Escola, Cidade e Experiência, de Walter Kohan, et al
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The Pillow Book
Where is a book before it is born?
Who are a books parents?
Does a book need two parents: a mother and a father?
Can a book be born inside another book?
Where is the parent book of books?
How old does a book have to be before it can give birth?
Do young books cry and scream if they are not read?
Do they pass words with incontinent abandon?
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Stories
Aqui
Elif Shafak
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Nada
Um homem miserável e andrajoso, que muito parecia um mendigo, penetrou um dia no palácio do califa de Bagdad, na ausência deste, e atirou-se sem meias medidas para o trono vazio.
Os guardas, adivinhando qualquer coisa de insólito, quiçá sobrenatural, não se atreveram a expulsá-lo. Chamaram o camareiro-mor que acorreu e perguntou ao homem esfarrapado:
- Sabes tu que estás a ocupar o assento do califa dos Abássidas, que é Comendador dos Crentes?
- Sim, sei.
- E sabes quem é o califa?
- Sei e estou acima dele.
O camareiro-mor ficou um instante a pensar e depois, alteando a voz, disse:
- Perdeste a inteligência por causa da tua pobreza? Não sabes que acima do califa só há o profeta Maomé?
- Sei – disse o desgraçado.
- E sabes quem é o Profeta?
- Sei e estou acima dele.
Os guardas parecem escandalizados. Levantam as armas para as abater sobre o intruso que parecia completamente calmo e seguro de si. O camareiro-mor deteve-os com um gesto e fez uma última pergunta:
- Não sabes que acima do profeta Maomé só há Deus?
- Sei – respondeu o mendigo.
- E não sabes quem é Deus?
- Sei e estou acima dele.
- Acima de Deus? Vês bem o que estás a dizer? Mas nada há acima de Deus.
- Eu sei – disse o homem esfarrapado, sem se mexer do trono. – E, precisamente, eu sou esse nada.
Jean-Claude Carrière, Nova Tertúlia de Mentirosos
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Closing her eyes for a moment, Ella prophesied to herself with jubilant conviction and confidence what the days ahead would bring her. She had never been on her own like this before, and yet, oddly enough, she didn't feel lonely.
"I've missed you, baby," she said. "And I've missed your brother and sister, too. Will you come to see me?"
"Of course I will, mamma — we will — but what are you going to do now? Are yu sure you aren't coming back?"
"I'm going to Amsterdam," Ella said. "They have incredibly cute little flats there, overlooking the canals. I can rent one of those I'll need to improve my biking. I don't know... I'm not going to make plans, honey. I'm going to try living one day at a time. I'll see what my heart says. It is one of the rules, isn't it?"
Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of love
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"Two men were traveling from one town to another. They came to a stream that had risen due to heavy rainfall. Just when they were about to cross the water, they noticed a young woman standing there all alone, in need of help. One of the men went immediately to her side. He picked the woman up and carried her in his arms across the stream. Then he dropped her there, waved good-bye, and the two men went their way.
During the rest of the trip, the second traveler was unusually silent and sullen, not responding to his friends questions. After several hours of sulking, unable to keep silent anymore, he said, "Why did you touch that woman? She could have seduced you! Men and woman cannot come into contact like that!"
The first man responded calmly, "My friend, I carried the woman across the stream, and that is where I left her. It is you who have been carrying her ever since.""
Elif Shafak, The Forty rules of Love
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Mirror, mirror
"Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all the time. Like a mirror that reflects what is absent rather than present, he shows you the void in your soul — the void you have resisted seeing. That person can be a lover, a friend or a spiritual master. Sometimes it can be a child to look after. What matters is to find the soul that will complete yours. All the prophets have given the same advice: Find the one who will be your mirror."
Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of love
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