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your eyes
These are the eyes I have been offered, these are The eyes I worship in serene commotion Theirs is the promise of joy, a glimpse of eternity through rivers of … Continue reading
O Regresso
A recente campanha do Continente, centrada na personagem “Sra. D. Florinda de Matosinhos”, é extraordinária na sua transparência. Diz a Sra. D. Florinda que no seu tempo não havia nada, … Continue reading
Easy easy easy stuff!
An iTunes slogan, photographed from their website, which I hardly ever visit: this time I went there in despair, looking for Towa Tei’s obscure compilation “Arbeit”. Well, iTunes knows no … Continue reading
The Illusion of Knowledge
What does it say about our times when a kitsch gif on Facebook with a soundbyte of unconfirmed authorship is more clairvoyant than the deterministic metrics that are currently sinking … Continue reading
From hormonal to codified
A whole potential freakin’ PhD thesis on this video. Footnotes for my April 27 lecture, The Revenge of Kitsch. So, grandpa plays game and does the Bieber karaoke while granddaughter … Continue reading
A Emergência Fashion
O vídeo da TAP das “regras de segurança a bordo”, a passar actualmente nos voos, é insuportável de equivocado. Quer ser giro, inclusivo, irreverente, uau. Tem crianças larocas, vozinhas mimadas, … Continue reading
The Blank Canvas.
Hi-tech has become ubiquitous to the point of being a blank canvas. Children get it first. Again. Rescued from Facebook: image allegedly by Serj Beeliner… Who knows.
Debord, mais actual que nunca.
Esta semana, em contexto de aula, falei do mais actual que nunca “Societé du Spectacle”, de Guy Debord. Há uns anos, traduzi o seu ensaio “Théorie de la Dérive”. Aqui … Continue reading
