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When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …
"Nós somos convencidos por provas, mas, mais do que por provas, somos convencidos pela Narrativa que se cria em torno de qualquer coisa. Se a gente não gosta da Narrativa, nem as provas mais arrasadoras são capazes de nos fazer mudar de opinião."
"There was an opportunity to advance the ball, but we failed to do it as a state, collectively,” a frustrated McCalley says. “Persons with disability are still out of sight, out of mind, in this society."
Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way …
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the …
"Nunca sé si estamos en México o La USA. Los dos tienen los mismos arbustos, hay Solitarios y algunos Peluches. En vez de árboles hay piedras..."
"Parecemos pura caja de fósforos. Palitos encima de otros palitos. Un pastel de gente. Yo soy la candela de arriba. El más chiquito de todos que va encima de la alfombra mágica. Soy Aladino y al fin crucé el desierto."
When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat …
I think we can build what Ivan Illich called “tools for conviviality”—tools that support “autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment.” Convivial tools are ones that invite us to be creative and responsible, rather than deferring responsibility to someone else.
— Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider, Darija Medic (7%)
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the …
"“migrantes”, como nos llama la gente de acá. Es una palabra que cuesta decir. De “gran” a “tes” hay como una montaña que a mi lengua le cuesta escalar. Es una palabra que cae como agua salada en mi garganta. “Ustedes los migrantes son así”, “esos migrantes son asá”, migrantes, migrantes."
"Trato de recordar a qué olía Mamá Pati, pero no me acuerdo. Es lo que más me emociona de verla otra vez: recuperar su olor."
When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat …
Life can flourish on rotting logs, as brown’s fungi remind us. If nation-state democracy is rotting, then we might allow ourselves to imagine its erosion not solely as a loss. Rot is metabolism, an act of digestion into something else. If democracy is not a static organism so much as an evolving symbiosis, then we can allow ourselves to search for more of the possible feedback loops that we could sense and act on.
— Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider, Darija Medic (5%)
When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat …
"Any precise meaning of self-governance is necessarily contextual, depending on who is involved and what kinds of say they seek. Likewise, I claim no fixed definition for democracy. I understand it as always a horizon, a longing for power shared equitably among participants, a destination that moves depending on where one stands."
Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class, and …
"... tudo já estava de alguma forma em nossa mente, naquele galpão às escuras. A imaginação é o facho de lanterna que o percorre e revela o que está amontoado lá dentro."
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age …
@yuribravos Acho que foi no teu feed que eu achei! :P Eu imaginei a parte da "abstração" dado que é uma leitura que se apresenta Marxista, né?
Comprei uma cópia usada que tá pra chegar... Vamos trocar umas ideias quando eu começar a ler! ;)
