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Catherine Black, Mar 11, 2008
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 Seven Argentine Doors
Photo Essay, Christian Denes, Jun 25, 2007
In northwest Argentina, most structures are built from readily available materials, such as the adobe bricks that come straight from the earth. This creates a synchronicity of textures and colors across the landscape; and nearly everything else, eventually, fades to match the ever-present beige.It was because of this uniformity that the doors started to call my attention. Not only the solid, recently painted colors, but also the partially faded reds and greens that could not be created willingly on a palette.
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 Lawrence of Arabia and the Guerrilla War Against Copyright
Essay, Wu Ming 1, Jun 18, 2007
What the powers-that-be describe as "piracy" is in fact an endemic and unquenchable practice. "Piracy" is both the community's reappropriation of some segments of production which were unaccessible until a few years ago (e.g. the burning of CDs), and consumers' revolt against inflated prices, immoderate profits, the quality decrease of mainstream music, and all legal/technological obstacles to making private and safe copies.
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 The Revenge of the Lobster!
Image, Cristian Caccavelli, Jun 15, 2007
This is really just a little joke: in the old days mothers tried to teach their daughters that they had to marry a man with money in order to be happy, and so if they were invited out to dinner they should order the lobster (since it is usually the most expensive dish and a kind of status symbol)...
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 Ramsar and the Backrooms of Global Water Politics
Post, Marcelo Ballvé, Jun 13, 2007
What is Ramsar? Ramsar is shorthand for the international Ramsar Convention on Wetlands—an important and yet low-profile intergovernmental treaty named for the place where it was signed, Ramsar, Iran, in 1971. Think of it as the United Nations for water. It is arguably the most powerful organization overseeing the world's water—especially freshwater—resources, though very few people know of its existence, or the relatively unconventional manner in which it operates. |
 Wu Wei: The Hard Road to Effortlessness
Essay, Catherine Black, Jun 11, 2007
Wu wei is a key concept of Taoism roughly translated as “without action,” and can be interpreted to mean “effortless doing,” “action without action,” “not resisting,” “going with the flow,” or acting in harmony with the universe. As martial arts students, many theoretical and applied principles in our training stem from the concept of wu wei, but we also know that studying and excelling in any art requires a great deal of discipline.
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 Going to the River: Part 3
Essay, Marcelo Ballvé, Jun 08, 2007
Puerto Madero is the name of the redeveloped old docklands in Buenos Aires. They have been transformed from rusty, univisited relics to an upscale district. Like many planned communities, Puerto Madero is a highly regimented area. Once I'm on its sidewalks I immediately notice the environment's artificiality. Many familiar features of the Buenos Aires street landscape are absent: there are no towering sycamores, cracked sidewalks, or deep rain gutters clogged with leaves and refuse. There are no newspaper stands or overflowing trash cans. There are no lottery vendors standing on street-corners, spools of numbers in their hands.
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 Remembering in the Land that Memory Forgot
Essay, Teo Ballvé, Jun 06, 2007
Impunity rides the coattails of amnesia and oblivion. Without memory to link the present with the past, current wrongs seem like historical aberrations, rather than the consequence of accumulated injustice. Authoritarian regimes and their allies know this well and are keen to snuff out those who reflect too thoughtfully on the past. By continually wiping the historical slate clean, they are free to do as they please. |
 Infinite Time and its Consequences
Essay, MonoRecargado, May 31, 2007
Measurable, logical, pragmatic, physical time— does it exist? A quick and simple answer to this question might be "yes," but this answer is a result of historical and social conditioning. We are trained to think there is little reason for questioning the degree to which our concept of time is well-founded. So, we say "Time" is a clock, a calendar, minutes, seconds, years— it is past, present and future. The intention of this essay is to expand these narrow notions that normally limit our thinking about "Time."
Lea la versión original en español aqui.
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 Living the Story: the Journalism of Ryszard Kapuscinski
Essay, Marcelo Ballvé, Apr 28, 2007
These days it seems journalists have become less popular than lawyers. The widespread perception of journalism is that it is a field full of pedantic windbags and hacks with hidden agendas. For anyone who might be looking for evidence there is such a thing as a journalist with something mind-expanding to say, whose work is potentially as life-changing as a great film or novel, I recommend Ryszard Kapuscinski. His books might serve to dissuade journalist-haters from their blanket dismissal of our kind, the scribbling tribe. See related link dossier: Kapuscinski: Racist, Liar or Path-Breaking Writer? |
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