Arquivo para a ‘Recursos comuns’ Categoria
Technology, science and rebirth
04
May
The architecture of cirterciense monks, was followed by the Gothic cathedrals of medieval
and technical advances arc usage (support span roofs and even bridges) was a product of the Middle Ages, the invention of the printing press (the Chinese movable type already there) and later internalized understanding (silent reading was new) was important as the first step towards the democratization of writing and learning “scholar” whose word has a Latin root “scholastic”.
Among the most beautiful libraries in the world (see the list of top 10) is the Admont Abbey Admont founded in Austria in 1074 and 1776 embellished with golden tones, and the library and the library of the Strahov monastery in the Czech Republic beyond 1143, and indeed just cited, the monks built 3,500 libraries in the medieval world, knowing it was not popular was true, but it was a period of construction that culminated in the written press.
The dissemination of written culture through books, will start a learning process of democratization, which was not possible without the reproduction of books and even the invention of spectacles as much of the population was shortsighted, and allowed a faster propagation of ideas which paves the way for the expansion of reason, ideas and culture.
technology of great voyages allow not only the European maritime and commercial expansion, but will be the scientific advances that will discover an extraordinary number of new species of animals and plants, and new geological and climatic formations.
All this is in check including the technology itself, should I switch to a complex thought and look at the planet as a homeland for all, but you can not throw away the progress and advancement that rebirth gave rise, perhaps a new re-rebirth .
In the ceiling fresco of Strahov (pictured) made in the eighteenth century was called The humanity’s efforts for true wisdom, I think this is our effort.
Eclipse of reason, individualism and humanism
19
Mar
Man can for the first time in its history watch consciously and intentionally a change in time, as if we had today’s consciousness but assistíssemos the late Middle Ages, now not right.
What is the reason, one of the most brilliant writings of Max Horkheimer’s “Eclipse of Reason” read it in a voluntary exile when turned in to a reflection on our goals, affections and attachments, read at that time, “again and again, when urban culture race reached its peak, for example, in Florence in the fifteenth century, there was a balance similar to the psychological forces “(Horkheimer, 2002, p. 136).
It is for this social issue, not individual, so many people are looking for a saving force, autoajudas manuals, doctrines that are somehow something that points to the balance, but will not find in the individual and in just a few groups .
The individual subject to the state, endowed with almost divine powers over the individual which should be your protector, your spoiler and can not sustain their minimum rights, health, education and above all peace.
Blame this individualism of individual, is to take the part for the whole, this unprotected and isolated individual is forced to seek refuge for maintenance and dignified life and individualism is the resulting effect and not the cause of “eclipse” that society lives.
The reason for the eclipse comes also of being in pieces: be social, be individual and spiritual being, knowledge of fragmentation and also fragments the man in parts, forgetting -If your unit be designed to infinity, as is essential, and changeable and finite in appearance only what becomes the agreement of the contextual and temporary need, but are for basic needs that were designed: sociability, love and peace.
We exchanged essential for emergency, trade structures and loved by Being, and it perish and the individual penalty for an existence always subject to the “eclipse” of an end of season.
World Forum and technologies
11
Feb
In addition to economic discussions, the
serious political and social problems that many parts of the world cross, also the technologies has its place, the forum pointed technologies that are on the rise: Wireless cars, molecular nutrition, use of sensors that communicate with “things“ around us (ubiquity), sensors to monitor the health all the time that can be included in the body and some others.
One of the technologies that can greatly help humanity, we are facing a water crisis in many places, one tecnbologia to desalinate water at low cost was discussed and could be a highly sustainable way out, because the sea level is rising, they will reduce the energy consumption by 50% or even more.
Electric cars arrived, the problem is even autonomy of supply, but cars Wireless and greater autonomy are already being designed, the idea is to supply moving from an electromagnetic field installed on the roads, as the problem are long trips, there are already such tests in Seoul, South Korea.
Modern techniques could wipe out malnutrition in millions of people worldwide, using natural proteins essential to human, biotechnology promises to take power at the molecular level, however, fundamentalists may object as always.
Scientists working for many years to put “organic“ circuits inside the human body, they could produce medicines in the right dose within the body, acting so located around the diseased cell.
The technology is there to help the man, but a lot of backward mentality lingers.
Ranciére: image and technology
07
Jan
Jacques Rancière argues that the image already met its fate (The Future of the Image, 2007) and it is not fetishism, for it continued their power directly affect man and at the same time are record and marks in history to educate and transform .
But it is important and possible to put them in a relationship to be, if we remember the category difference and repetition (Heidegger, Deleuze and others), the temporal image operations and the time-image, I prefer the category dynamic image, it can be think that this belongs to the future emanating from it.
It is no longer the painter of the frame or photo, although they persist and continue to have an ontological importance of recording, but now one can speak in combinations and breaks the visible and speakable ad infinitum, as Rancière thinks.
What Rancière says in the background, of course is just a vision of an interpreter, is that politics is not just a struggle for power, but should always have a certain distribution of the sensible, a redefinition of ways to view and organize the real, and this are also the networks and the virtual.
This particular form of the sensitive agency that gives visibility to things in a way that previously they had not, and opens the person who appropriates the new ferrramentas in good ways to work on the power to speak and act in social alliances, not just party or sectorized groups.
In reading Ranciére notes the concern with the possibility of aesthetic acts were likely always new ways of feeling common to new forms of political subjectivity (Rancière,2009).
Jacques Rancière: Politics, History, Aesthetics (2000). Eds. Phil Watts and Gabriel Rockhill. (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009), and I think that technologies enable and empower this possibility.
Brazilian independent theater at risk
18
Dec
The most popular form of cultural expression, older remains the theater, and the independent theater plays a key role in this, emerges from the national and São Paulo culture more freely and democratically.
Due to real estate speculation, happened yesterday in São Paulo Cultural Center the first protest that shows the fragile situation of the independent São Paulo theater groups, who may lose their spaces or being moved to less visible places.
The fact happened last November with the Testimonials Bartholomew Center, which is a mixture of epic theater and hip-hop, with 15 years on the road and even with the rent on time, the group had to give the space a shed in Pompeii (west side of São Paulo), see photo above the dump.
A manifesto entitled Manifesto “In Defense of Cultural Territories Threatened” or public recognition that the 22 theater groups are the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the City of São Paulo, a document excerpt says “Can not that the right to private goods market a few is more important than the cultural heritage of many. “
Social networks helped Brincante group to remain in place, Vila Madalena (West Zone) with #ficabrincante campaign, by court decision the institute will remain there in 2015.
Internet access should be a human right
26
Nov
It is indicating a survey done in Canada and in 24 countries, with 23,376 respondents who indicated that access the
internet is key to economic future, important for the freedom of political expression, for it should be a human right.
The survey was conducted by Ipsos Institute for GCIG (Global Commission on Internet Governance), and presented at the beginning of a two-day meeting in Ottawa on governance on the Internet.
The World Commission on Internet Governance, the main host of the Ottawa conference, revealed that the world is on a path of struggle for power and many groups and governments have an interest in maintaining influence on all aspects of internet.
But the study of this committee argues that most people do not want any nation or organization in control of the world wide web and therefore a matter of planetary citizenship, and the problem is who should regulate access and use the internet.
The idea is that a group formed by a combination of specialists, engineers and non-governmental groups, is chosen by 57% of those who would be entrusted with this task, but 50% thought that the United Nations could carry out this work and there are still 36% that argue that the United States should take the lead in this area.
The survey was conducted from October 7 to November 12 in the countries: South Africa, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Kenya, UK, Switzerland, Tunisia and Turkey.
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The CGIg which is chaired by diplomat and former politician Carl Bildt Swiss, shall submit its final report for future governance of the Internet in 2016.
Neutralidade nos EUA
19
Nov
Enquanto no Brasil já temos uma lei que garante a neutralidade na
rede (o Marco Civil), nos EUA o debate ainda esquenta, e os internautas pressionam o congresso americano para que não faça o que está sendo chamado de “segmentação da rede”, velocidades diferentes conforme os conteúdos e planos das operadoras.
Desde que o presidente da FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Tom Wheller, revelou em abril que comissão que regula as comunicações nos EUA, estariam mudando as regras que regulam como os provedores de internet administram o tráfego de dados, os internautas começaram a protestar, este mês chegou a 3 milhões de e-mails recebidos na FCC.
O presidente americano Barak Obama defende a neutralidade da rede, em documento deixou claro que “não podemos permitir que os provedores de internet restringissem o melhor acesso ou escolham vencedores e perdedores no mercado online de serviços e ideias”.
As 36 principais empresas de internet que incluem a Google, Netflix e Amazon, defendem a neutralidade, mas os provedores e as operadoras pressionam no sentido contrário.
Os e-mails e comentários foram de consumidores, advogados, companhias e congressistas sobre as regras propostas para a chamada neutralidade de rede, na medida em que se aproxima o prazo final para análise do tema e o debate no congresso americano esquenta.
Embora não exista prazo formal, e a FCC já tenha realizado uma série de workshops sobre aspectos tecnológicos, legais e econômicos das novas regras, a pressão aumenta e é pouco provável que a matéria seja aprovada ainda em novembro.
Android code 5 is released
05
Nov
In practice this means that not only manufacturers but also developers can download the system image and follow the instructions on the link to install the version that is being called Lollipop, and this version is already announced for the Nexus 4, 5, 6 (versions by 2012) and 7 (version 2013) for Edition Google Play devices.
These versions will be available in the coming weeks, for now is only available l version 9 for the Nexus tablet, released this week in the US.
And other Motorola, Asus, HTC, Sony and OnePlus, manufacturers also update for these devices are available at this link.
CyanogenMod much as had warned should now have begun since the Lollipop had said that once the source code of the current version was released this update would begin.
It is possible that Android 5.0 will soon land in the most varied devices already in the memories ROMs (previously recorded on the hardware itself).
