Heterologias

quinta-feira, fevereiro 23, 2012

 

Speculation / Especulação

Michelangelo Pistoletto, Divisione e Moltiplicazione dello Specchio, 1978

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sexta-feira, junho 24, 2011

 

Ministério da Paisagem

Assunção Cristas, ministra da Agricultura, do Mar, do Ambiente e do Ordenamento do Território

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domingo, maio 16, 2010

 

There are zionisms and zionisms...


"I was a Zionist activist in my youth. For me, Zionism meant opposition to a Jewish state. The Zionist movement did not come out officially in favor of a Jewish state until 1942. Before this it was merely the intent of the Zionist leadership. The Zionist movement for a long time stood against the establishment of a Jewish state because such a state would be discriminatory and racist".

"Israel in Global Context", Noam Chomsky interviewed by Ludwig Watzal, Challenge, No. 44, July-August 1997 [June 9, 1997]

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sexta-feira, abril 30, 2010

 

Infiltratrating Capitalism with The Yes Men

McDonald's McMascots: Rona McRiveter by The Yes Men

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quarta-feira, abril 28, 2010

 

As agências de ratas


Hoje, a minha Justina está de rastos. Eu bem a tinha avisado que aquilo não ficava por ali, que a Dona Ermelinda tinha lá escarrapachado, pra toda a gente ver, um outlook negativo. Mas a minha Justina é toda reinação e é uma miúda bem formada e achou que se pagasse umas bejecas à Ermelinda dos jornais, a que vende lotarias no quiosque, ela começava a ver mais os pontos fortes do negócio e menos os remendos na canalização. Qual o quê! Hoje o pessoal que vinha do quiosque da Ermelinda era só que as meninas da Justina eram tão porcas como as universitárias gregas do Erasmo que fazem uns biscates prá Antonieta zarolha. Ainda pra mais, isto tudo no fim do mês, quando o pessoal vem aqui largar o guito. Estava eu com o Rebelo das obras, a engraxar-lhe o Benfica, que sim, que era uma fartura e que antes cá pra Lisboa que prós facciosos dos tripeiros (que a gente, quando é empresário, diz o que é preciso pra cativar o cliente) e que se fazia assim uma coisa em grande, já este fim-de-semana que vem, pra comemorar o europeu de salão - e os matraquilhos no Chico - mas, vai o Rebelo, que não, que não queria investir nisso, que, se calhar, não, que ainda ia ver, que os rapazes andavam cansados com as obras pró Papa, que o Terreiro do Paço tinha de estar acabado em menos de quinze dias, que o Braga ainda podia dar chatices... E eu a cheirar o ranço daquela merda toda. E digo-lhe assim: punhamos aí as meninas da Justina a noite toda a girarem umas mines, uma música daquelas pum-pum-pum toda às bolinhas, dava-se-lhes mais qualquer coisa e as gajas também davam mais qualquer coisa aos rapazes... E o Rebelo que ainda se ia ver. É pá! Disse logo eu ao Silva cauteleiro: anda aqui intriga da Ermelinda - e o gajo logo que sim, que a Ermelinda, depois da Antonieta, era a malhar na Justina, que aquilo era como os tigres da Malásia, pior que o Sandokan, que era no pescoço do mais fraco, despachava um e passava ao outro e que, depois da Justina, ainda ia ser a vez da Pilar, a espanhola da Pensão Vigo, que eram as leis do mercado e que um tipo não andava aqui pra ver passar combóios e ele até achava que a Ermelinda estava feita com o tipo da Remax, aquele com ar de paneleiro e gravata à BCP, e o que eles queriam era fechar aquilo tudo para depois se fazerem uns condomínios à maneira prós granfinos, daqueles com guardas e tudo, como nas novelas brasileiras. Aí é que está o quiproquó, ó Silva - a merda do busiles, o dedo na ferida. Eu bem avisei a Justina do outlook negativo, mas ela não, que não, que ia a falas com a Ermelinda e ia correr tudo bem. Até se pôs em cima do balcão e, de mine na mão, disse assim como quem vai apresentar um fadista de quem nunca ninguém ouviu falar: caros clientes, que são mais que amigos, são como família. (Houve uma balbúrdia de aplausos e de assobios e de bocas prá geral). E ela, embalada: amigos, vizinhos, gentes do meu coração, para que não haja dúvidas e ninguém fique a matutar, digo-vos aqui, d'alma escancarada e coração nas mãos, que a Albertina, apesar de não ter sido ela a pegar os chatos ao Manel da Famel, já foi posta na rua, porque ia lá pra trás mexer nos tomates do Carlos servente, que é um porco e só lhe pagava o que queria, quando queria e nós nunca víamos nada. A malta toda a aplaudir e eu mesmo ali a ver que aquilo já não era suficiente para acalmar a Ermelinda: era pouca coisa e tarde de mais. Por isso, quando, hoje de manhãzinha, me vem a Justina toda chorosa da padaria, a dizer que aquela puta da Ermelinda a tinha descido dois lugares no ranking e que ainda lhe tinha dito ó Sôdona Justina não fique assim, que ainda está muito bem colocada pra lhe mandar pra lá uns marinheiros turcos e uns rapazes ucranianos que estão ali a pôr um pládur no café do Senhor Sousa e que ela só não lhe foi às fuças porque, depois, é que nem aos reformados da Recreativa a Ermelinda recomendava o estaminé, quando ela me chegou neste estado, eu só lhe disse, ó Justina, faz-me aqui um broche, pra não ir assim prá casa de banho lavar a tromba. Mas, eu, o que queria, mesmo, dizer-lhe era: olha, filha, põe-te mas é a pau, que o outlook continua negativo e ainda vais pelo mesmo caminho da Antonieta zarolha e olha que vais de carrinho, nem que faças uma remodelação geral ao estaminé, lavabos incluídos e toalhinhas de turco grosso mudadas todos os dias. E a Justina fez-se ao pau, mas foi ao meu, e a Ermelinda não se vai ficar por aqui. Esperem pra ver e escrevam aí na agenda que fui eu quem vos disse - que eu, quando falo não é prá piça, por isso escrevam nas agendas, não ponham os colhões a gravar.

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quinta-feira, fevereiro 18, 2010

 

Massa fresca com nero di seppia

Reconstituição das páginas da edição angolana do primeiro caderno do semanário Sol de 12 de Fevereiro de 2010 que por cá andam esquivas, segundo afamado especialista estrangeiro em arqueologia industrial (que pediu anonimato: diz que não gosta de chocos com tinta)



A PARÁBOLA DO JUIZ E DA JORNALISTA

- A JORNALISTA
O sôtor não acha que o primeiro valor de uma sociedade democrática é a liberdade de expressão?

- O JUIZ (do Norte)
Não.

- A JORNALISTA
... a liberdade de pensamento?

- O JUIZ (do Norte)
Não.

- A JORNALISTA
...a liberdade de opinião?

- O JUIZ (do Norte)
Não. Não. O primeiro valor é o direito à vida.
E deixemo-nos de coisas, porque eu já ouvi dizer... que é... O único valor, o primeiro valor, o único valor que não tem limitações, em algumas sociedades, porque tem, por exemplo, nos sítios onde há pena de morte, é o direito à vida e à integridade física...

- A JORNALISTA
Está a fugir à minha pergunta.

Da tradição popular

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quinta-feira, julho 09, 2009

 

9 de Julho



"We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness. Also it is a country for capitalists".

Diários de Viktor Klemperer, entrada de 9 de Julho de 1933

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segunda-feira, março 30, 2009

 

Hyperreality frenzy: We're selling!






You can use the comment box to make your bids.

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sexta-feira, março 06, 2009

 

La Mariée était en noir

Jean Boulogne, "O Rapto das Sabinas", 1574-82, Firenze, Loggia della Signoria

'There he is, up to his neck, Jabotinsky, up with the leaders of the intellectual west? You didn't ever even get to where the Greeks were with their ethical & political debate, when yeer crowd were barely straggling back from Babylon, all misery & grudges, weren't they well shut of ye. Where's your Legal Title? What's this it says? Deuteronomy ch.20? Joshua ch.10 vv.28-42. You despise & slander the writings of the New Testament, yet you cite as your title to other people's land a rabid fairytale written down 700 years after the events it purports to describe? And you say your values are western? Your last two civilised rabbi emissaries, despatched to inspect the locale after the 1897 Zionist Congress in Basel reported back: "the bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man." Viktor Klemperer the Dresden Diarist wrote in 1934: the Nazis got their stupid Blut und Boden romanticism from ye.'

Sydney Bernard Smith, Sauce for the Gander, Lulu, 2007, p. 61

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terça-feira, março 03, 2009

 

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Rembrandt, "A Noiva Judia", c. 1667, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


As in the scriptural story itself, the precise location of the promised land remained vague, and for a time the desert lands of Arab Palestine seemed too far a stretch for the imagination. Alberto Gerchunoff was one of the pioneering Zionists who fled the steppes of Russia for the pampas of Argentina, to help found there, with earnest Argentine government encouragement, the Jewish settlement of "Moisesville." "Argentina is the Promised Land reached after a New Exodus," he declared in his book Los Gauchos Judios (The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas). "Here, in Argentina," he exulted, "we will work hard, we will eat the bread made with our own wheat, and will be farmers like the old time Jews, the ones in tne Bible."
If Palestine seemed too alien for these Europeans, it also brought with it another problem: it was already inhabited, by an Arab population of hundreds of thousands of people whose families had lived there for centuries. The small community of Jews who already resided in Jerusalem, like the more sizable Jewish enclave in Baghdad, had long ago made its accommodations with Arab culture and strongly opposed Zionist pretensions that might, in arousing Arab antipathies, threaten their relatively stable existence.
In the early years of the Zionist movement, two rabbis from Vienna were sent on a scouting mission to Palestine to estimate the possibilities of creating a Jewish state there. The rabbis wired back, "The bride is beautiful but she is married to another man." But for the more zealous, and focused, Zionists, this was no fatal obstacle. After all, in the very same chapter of Genesis in which the Lord first calls Abraham to the promised land, there is the explicit acknowledgement that "the Canaanite was then in the land."
Nevertheless, the Lord immediately thereafter appears to Abraham and declares to him, "Unto thy seed will I give this land." In the next chapter the sequence is repeated, and elaborated. "And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land." And the Lord said to Abraham, "Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever." The biblical message could not be any clearer: the imagined land took precedence over the inhabited land.

David F. Noble, Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth, Toronto, Between The Lines, 2005, pp. 41-42

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quarta-feira, janeiro 07, 2009

 

Metropolis

King Champ Gillette (1855-1932), World Corporation, Boston, New England News Company, 1910: "Man Corporate"
LinkUnder a perfect economical system of production and distribution, and a system combining the greatest elements of progress, there can be only one city on a continent, and possibly only one in the world. There would be outlying groups of buildings in different sections of the country for the accommodation of those who were, for limited periods, in the field of labor, and also others that would be occupied as resorts of pleasure in season; but the great and only "Metropolis" would be the home of the people. Having this idea in view, the location of the great city requires thoughtful and careful consideration, it being, in fact, the heart of a vast machine, to which over the thousands of miles of arteries of steel the raw material of production would find its way, there to be transformed in the mammoth mills and workshops into the life­giving elements that would sustain and electrify the mighty brain of the whole, which would be the combined intelligence of the entire population working in unison, but each and every individual working in his own channel of inclination.

For many reasons I have come to the conclusion that there is no spot on the American continent, or possibly in the world. that combines so many natural advantages as that section of our country lying in the vicinity of the Niagara Falls, extending east into New York State and west into Ontario. The possibility of utilizing the enormous natural power resulting from the fall, from the level of Lake Erie to the level of Lake Ontario, some 330 feet is no longer the dream of enthusiasts, but is a demonstrated fact. Here is a power, which, if brought under control, is capable of keeping in continuous operation even manufacturing industry for centuries to come, and, in addition supply all the lighting;, facilities, run all the elevators, and furnish the power necessary for the transportation system of the great central city....

The manufacturing industries of "Metropolis" would be located east and west of Niagara River in Ontario and New York. The residence portion of the city would commence about ten miles east of Niagara River and Buffalo; and from this point to its eastern extremity, which would include the present city of Rochester in its eastern border, the city would be sixty miles long east and west, and thirty miles in width north and south, lying parallel with Lake Ontario, and about five miles from it.

King Champ Gillette, The Human Drift, Boston, New Era Publishing Co., 1894. Reprint: Delmar, N.Y., Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, Inc., 1976, pp. 88-112.

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terça-feira, janeiro 06, 2009

 

Re-ligar (3)

Palestina, 18 de Janeiro de 2008 - 20 de Dezembro de 2008

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terça-feira, dezembro 02, 2008

 

Gioachino: il dottore che ama la filosofia, la gestione e il suo volto...


(...e, a quanto pare, la mia madrina Zazie)

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quinta-feira, novembro 27, 2008

 

My worthy Mr. Engineer! Do you really believe that all the bloggers of the whole world are actually such simpletons?



Fritz Lang, Metropolis, 1927


One of the richest and most eminent American merchants, a certain Edward Albert Filene, Vice-Chairman of the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce, is now touring Paris, Berlin and other big European centres to make personal contact with the most influential people of the commercial world.

At the banquets arranged, as is fitting, by the richest people of Europe in honour of one of the American rich, the latter is developing his “new” ideas on the world power of the merchant. Frankfurter = Zeitung,[1] the organ of German finance capital, reports in detail the ideas of this “advanced” American millionaire.

We are experiencing a great historic movement,” he proclaims, “that will end in the transfer of all power over the modern world to representatives of commercial capital. We are the people who bear the greatest responsibility in the world and we should, therefore, be politically the most influential.

Democracy is growing, the power of the masses is growing,” argued Mr. Filene (rather inclined, it seems, to regard those “masses” as simpletons). “The cost of living is rising. Parliamentarism and the newspapers, distributed in millions of copies a day, are providing the masses of the people with ever more detailed information.

The masses are striving to ensure for themselves participation in political life, the extension of franchise, the introduction of an income-tax, etc. Power over the whole world must pass into the hands of the masses, that is, into the hands of our employees,” is the conclusion drawn by this worthy orator.

The natural leaders of the masses should be the industrialists and merchants, who are learning more and more to understand the community of their interests and those of the masses.” (We note in parenthesis that the cunning Mr. Filene is the owner of a gigantic commercial house employing 2,500 people, and that he has “organised” his employees in a “democratic” organisation with profit-sharing, etc. Since he considers his employees hopeless simpletons, Mr. Filene is sure that they are completely satisfied and infinitely grateful to their “father-benefactor” ....)

Wage increases, the improvement of labour conditions, that is what will bind our employees to us,” said Mr. Filene, “that is what will guarantee our power over the whole world. Everybody in the world who is at all talented will come to us to enter our service.

We need organisation and still more organisation—strong, democratic organisation, both national and inter national,” the American exclaimed. He called upon the commercial world of Paris, Berlin, etc., to reorganise international chambers of commerce. They should unite the merchants and industrialists of all civilised countries in a single, mighty organisation. All important international problems should be discussed and settled by that organisation.

Such are the ideas of an “advanced” capitalist, Mr. Filene.

The reader will see that these ideas are a paltry, narrow, one-sided, selfishly barren approximation to the ideas of Marxism propounded over sixty years ago. “We” are great masters at upsetting and refuting Marx; “we”, the civilised merchants and professors of political economy, have refuted him completely!... And at the same time we steal little bits and pieces from him and boast to the whole world of our “progressiveness”....

My worthy Mr. Filene! Do you really believe that the workers of the whole world are actually such simpletons?

W. [V. I. Lenine], "The Ideas of an Advanced Capitalist", Rabochaya Pravda, No. 4, July 17, 1913. Tradução de George Hanna, Lenin Collected Works, Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1977, volume 19, pages 275-276.

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Hollow shell


"We are watching the rebirth of colonization and a colonial mentality of a new type represented by the ‘human rights’ brigades and their friends in Le Monde and Libération, of which the war in Iraq and the failure of the West to force Israel to retreat from its colonial positions are good examples. And tied to that is the process of neo-liberalism and the neo-liberal economy, which makes democracy itself into a very hollow shell"

Tariq Ali, Naked Punch Review 06

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quarta-feira, novembro 05, 2008

 

Viva!

Ontem, dia 4 de Novembro de 2008, escreveu-se uma página brilhante da História contemporânea - da História da Civilização Ocidental, tal como os gregos a começaram há já mais de 2.500 anos!

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sexta-feira, outubro 31, 2008

 

High finance satellites (trick and treat)


Miguel Soares, Space Junk beta 1.0, 2001


Just as Jean Baudrillard long ago warned, the hyperreal, simulational world of
derivatives, credit swaps, and mortgage backed securities long ago
blasted off from material reality, reaching escape velocity, and then
orbiting the world as star-like high finance satellites -- purely
virtual satellites which have no real meaning for the rest of us as
long as they stay in space as part of the alienated, recursive loops
of advanced capitalism. But when the meltdown suddenly happens, when
that immense weight of over-indebtedness and toxic mortgages and
credit derivates plunge back into the gravitational weight of real
politics and real economy, we finally know what it is to live within
trajectories of the catastrophic. Economists are quoted as saying the
financial crisis effects "everyone on earth." Is this Virilio's
"global accident?" Quite certainly it is panic finance: that moment
when the credit mechanisms necessary for capitalist liquidity slam
shut, a time made to measure for Virilio's brilliant theory of bunker
archeology, with each bank its own toxic bunker of junk assets, each
banker a born again socialist. For example, always vigilant automatic
circuit breakers working in the darkness of night recently prevented
a global plunge of the futures market. Allan Greenspan throws up his
hands, exclaiming "I'm in shocked disbelief."
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Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, "City of Transformation. Paul Virilio in Obama's America",
CTHEORY: THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, VOL 31, NO 3


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terça-feira, outubro 07, 2008

 

Unemployed black man seating on a crambling porch invest fund



State Street Global Markets

Bear Sterns

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terça-feira, abril 01, 2008

 

Islâmicos e islamitas

(O evangelho segundo S. Valupi (?) explicado à infiel Zazie)
















Um "islâmico"



Um "islamita"

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segunda-feira, março 17, 2008

 

Beijing 2008

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