Showing posts with label Ecologia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ecologia. Show all posts
Creation comes out of vulnerability
Björk to Timothy Morton:
"Hi Timothy,
I wanted to write this letter for a long time.
I have been reading your books for a while and I like them a lot.
Next year there will be a MoMA exhibition on my work including a book.
I was wondering if you’d be interested in taking part in it?
Warmth, Björk.”
Timothy Morton to Björk:
“Dear Björk,
It was very kind of you to write to me, and I’m very touched by your kind words.
I am always quite surprised anyone reads my stuff!
I would be thrilled to be part of the MoMA catalogue.
Your work has been a very deep influence on my way of thinking and life in general.
I like to be given homework in terms of what to write (perpetual student!), so do tell me more about what specifications you might like.
It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness – not just in terms of PR for the science.
I have heard this in your work since I started to listen to it.
Yours, Tim”
The rest is here.
The Overview Effect - taking Earth into perspective
"O sentimento de reverência é inspirado por duas coisas: a beleza e a vastidão. É difícil imaginar algo mais transformadoramente belo e vasto do que o planeta visto do espaço, sobretudo sendo enquadrado por uma vacuidade negra aparentemente infinita."
"O Efeito Visão Geral muda as pessoas. Um astronauta da Apolo tornou-se sacerdote depois de regressar à Terra. Outro iniciou-se em meditação transcendental e dedicou-se ao voluntariado. Um, Edgar Mitchell, fundou o Instituto de Ciências Noéticas, que investiga a consciência humana."
Jonathan Safran Foer, in Salvar o Planeta Começa ao Pequeno-Almoço [pag 144]
Nuclear, yes please
"The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged and wildly wrong. We have done other people, and ourselves, a terrible disservice."
Here
Why I changed my mind about nuclear power | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxBerlin
Let's Panic
"We are not fighting for our future. We are fighting for everyone's future. And if you think that we should be in school instead, then we suggest that you take our place in the streets, striking from your work or, better yet, join us so we can speed up the process. Saying everything will be alright while continuing doing nothing at all is just not hopeful to us. You can't just sit around hoping for hope to come. Then you're acting like spoilt, irresponsible children. You don't seem to understand that hope is something you need to earn"
Greta Thunberg
Another interview here.
The Gift of Death
"There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a “hilarious” inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called Terry the Swearing Turtle; or – and somehow I find this significant – a Scratch Off World wall map."
Aqui
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy / Biosphere Consciousness
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy
On the concept of freedom: minute 1:03:45
On the concept of power: minute 1:05:01
On the concept of community: 1:05:50
On empathy:
The most civilized societies are the ones that can move empathy to larger reigns.
Here.
"Happiness are the blank pages of History, because they are the periods of harmony"
Hegel
The Belt One Road Inniciative: here
Grounding / de volta à natureza
The Grounded
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer
The effects of grounding (earthing) on inflammation, the immune response, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases: aqui e aqui
The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding (full documentary)
Human nature...
“Nobody wants to take on any of the industries that produce the things that we throw up into the atmosphere,” he said. “But what you have are all these competing interests pitted against our very survival.”
Senator Dale Bumpers
Losing Earth - da ciência e da consciência – Time to embarque
"If by some miracle we are able to limit warming to two degrees, we will only have to negotiate the extinction of the world’s tropical reefs, sea-level rise of several meters and the abandonment of the Persian Gulf.
[...]
His wife, Lenore, was eight months pregnant; was it ethical, he wondered, to bring a child onto a planet that before much longer could become inhospitable to life? And he wondered why it had fallen to him, a 32-year-old lobbyist without scientific training, to bring greater attention to this crisis.
[...]
The publication of Jule Charney’s report, “Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment,” several months later was not accompanied by a banquet, a parade or even a news conference. Yet within the highest levels of the federal government, the scientific community and the oil-and-gas industry — within the commonwealth of people who had begun to concern themselves with the future habitability of the planet — the Charney report would come to have the authority of settled fact. It was the summation of all the predictions that had come before, and it would withstand the scrutiny of the decades that followed it. "
Aqui
The Doors - the End
A loucura do Antropoceno
"À medida que o trabalho de Morton se estende para lá dos hierofantes culturais como Björk e entra nas páginas dos maiores órgãos de informação, ele está talvez a transformar-se no nosso mais popular guia para a nova época. Sim, é verdade que ele tem algumas ideias que parecem muito loucas acerca do que significa estar vivo nos tempos actuais – mas o que significa estar vivo exactamente agora, no Antropoceno, é efectivamente muito louco."
"Morton compara esta consciencialização com as histórias de detectives em que o perseguidor percebe que se está a perseguir a si próprio (os seus exemplos favoritos são Blade Runner e Édipo Rei). “Nem todos nós estamos preparados para ficarmos suficientemente assustados [com esta epifania]”, declara. Mas existe outra reviravolta: apesar de os seres humanos terem causado o Antropoceno, não podemos controlá-lo. “Oh, meu Deus”, exclamou Morton ante mim a certa altura, fingindo estar horrorizado. “A minha tentativa de escapar da teia do destino era a teia do destino.”
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