“We could say that every age has its own postmodern (…) I believe that every age reaches moments of crisis like those described by Nietzsche in the second of the ‘Untimely Considerations’, on the harmfulness of the study of History. The sense that the past is restricting, smothering, blackmailing us.“

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Most self-help and inspirational speeches suck, period.

However, once in a lifetime, someone tells you something that actually is great advice, and you don’t really notice until much later. A few years ago, I’ve read some things about being a professional artist, at a blog named Gaping Void. Hugh MacLeod’s advice struck me with [...]

Editor Daniel Werneck expresses this feeling aptly in his end of the book essay which is a nice concise history of the pulps, past, present and future. It is Werneck’s love the genre that propelled him to create his own homage to those long ago mags. (…) Still my favorite is easily Werneck’s own [...]

When I was a kid, learning how to read, I used to be bothered by that little voice inside my head that read the text with me. Every time I’d read something, I would imagine the text inside of my head, as if someone was reading it aloud to me. Over time I [...]

Last week I had to work, for 4 days, on a local event at the university where I teach. It was an exposition of all the university’s courses, so 17-year-old kids could visit and learn more about the professions they are willing to embrace after they leave high school.

Our stand was crowded all [...]

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Director : Romain Gavras Director of Photography : André Chemetoff Producer : Mourad Belkeddar Production company : www.elnino.tv Executive Production : Gaetan Rousseau / Paradoxal Special thanks to Lana & Melissa from The Director’s [...]

Tired of being exploited by credit card companies and banks, a man forges his own death like a spy he saw in a movie. He then starts living without linking his name to anything. He doesn’t have a movie rental account, he can’t buy anything from the internet, and so on. His new life [...]

Idea for a dialogue scene, probably a short theatre play. A conversation between two men. One is 30 years old, the other is 50. The older man is the father of the youngest, who left home when the youngest was about 15 years old. The older man started living alone in a large house, [...]

Esse é um dos meus poemas favoritos. Pensei que fosse famoso, mas procurando no Google tive muita dificuldade em encontrar. Acho que ele revela uma verdade brutal que não devemos nunca esquecer. Enquanto vivermos em sociedade, estaremos eternamente sendo rotulados e classificados, quase sempre injustamente. Além disso, é impossível agradar a todos. [...]