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1 year Mariana (Brazil) tragedy
03
Nov
A village of 600 people, which was part of the call route “Royal Route” in the seventeenth century, which had monuments and churches of cultural value, on 5 December last year was swept by 62 million cubic meters of mud, so off the map Bento Rodrigues, ten deaths and an ecological tragedy.
The wave in eleven minutes devastated Mariana seven districts, also contaminated the North Gualaxo rivers do Carmo and the Doce River, still no signs of any recovery, and whose waste has reached the Holy Spirit and the sea.
Samarco mining was little known to the local population, but was considered successful model, and associated with a joint venture of Vale do Rio Doce and Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton, was 37 years old at the site.
In 2014 the company had revenues of 7.5 billion reais, with a net profit of 2.8 billion reais, but the company’s stock and worth plummeted and soon to Andrew Mackenzie, BHP Executive land in Brazil, and the chief executive of Vale Murilo Ferreira, and his colleague Ricardo Vescovi de Aragão of enterprise Samarco, tried to erase the negative image, but without success.
There are still doubts as ecological restoration, the role that regulatory agencies of the Minas Gerais State and the Brazil Government (Dilma in this time) exercised because today appear documents with evidence of the possibility of tragedy, a document spoke including that the death toll could reach 19, eighteen, it’s amazing the accuracy of the forecast.
One year later there are still shadows on the real culprits, besides engineers Samarco and the government monitoramente also the recovery of fauna and flora, the compensation of the affected follows in slow steps.
The pessimist Bauman again
01
Nov
In an interview with El País, the pessimist Bauman strikes again, not I say but it is with all with all letters in the book “Bauman is considered pessimistic. His diagnoses of reality in his later books is extremely critic. “, Can be read in the journal.
Although with proper diagnosis, your remedy is deadly in the wealth of the few 
benefits all of us? said the high price paid today by the triumphant neoliberalism of the 80s and the ‘thirty opulent “that followed, led to a” big lie “(which is true), but do not see novelty in the new parties, dreams of what? the return of the Politburo?
Attacks the lack of networks, says she would be opposed to “community,” he said in the interview: “The question of identity has been transformed from something pre-established in a job: you have to create your own community. But it does not create a community, you have one or not; what social networks can generate it is a substitute. The difference between the community and the network is that you belong to the community, but the network belongs to you. “, He creating a fictitious duality.
It is clear that never participated in a virtual community, which is not unrealistic, we expect him despite his age one day make the experience, and will find that not only will be in a community and will be much more open, and transparency (that is registered ) is clearer, and also easier to be tested and observed.
Pessimism Bauman goes to the extreme to deny “progress” coming to call it myth, he says, for example: “austerity policies will continue, they could not stop them, but can be relatively effective in introducing new forms of do the things.”
The interview makes it clear that he knows that new forms of expression and proposals exist, but he himself confesses: “I am not able to prophesy. We are experimenting with new ways of doing things”, he said to the daily, but cannot and never will succeed, why not propose anything, just give your negative diagnose problems are there to solve and propose.
The resulting liquidism´s baumanian is inertia, criticizing the network and new forms of manifestations and the methodology of his pessimism, which proposes?
e-Estonia: a digital country
25
Oct
Since its independence from the former Soviet Union (20 August 1991), 
Estonia decided it would be a country that would remain connected, decentralized, on an open platform infrastructure and a continuous process to keep improving, calling it four principles in its site.
The two key points of this e-citizenship is the identity card or e-ID and decentralized connection called infrastructure X-Road, they open the door to all state services, social and economic data, and the eID identification able to verify the identity of a person around the online environment.
The people of Estonia are the source of the Phoenicians, but are intimate and ethnically related to Finnish and Sami (northern Norway), so with historical links to all of Scandinavia, and the port of Tallinn as its capital and largest city, with the all over the country about 1 million and a half inhabitants.
With this economy has benefited from the strength of the electronics and telecommunications sectors and strong trade ties with Finland, Sweden, Russia and Germany.
The system of government is parliamentary with a Congress of 101 deputies elected directly by the vote of the citizens.
Estonia joined the European Union on 1 May 2004, while Latvia and Lithuania, has a GDP of US $ 35,398, which gives a per capita income of $ 26,000.
(Português) Infraestrutura nas cidades
28
Sep
Among the items analyzed by IBEU, although sanitation is a priority, most notably 
among negative aspects is the urban infrastructure (sidewalks, paving, street lighting, etc.) as 91.5% are in bad levels and very bad , corresponding to 2,579 as bad (46.3%) and very bad (45.2%), ie, the issue is very serious.
The data shows that are great urban problems of Brazilian municipalities. Perhaps the main is the urban infrastructure (paving, sidewalks, street lighting etc.), as 91.5% of the municipalities are in bad and very bad levels, corresponding to 2,579 as bad, and 2,516 as very bad.
Among the capitals, those with good to average conditions are: Victoria (1), Goiania (2), Rio de Janeiro (3) São Paulo (4), Curitiba (5), Belo Horizonte (6), Brasilia (7) , Porto Alegre (8) and Florianópolis (9), are in poor condition: Aracaju, Campo Grande, Palmas, Recife, Salvador, Fortaleza, Teresina, Manaus, Natal, Cuiabá, João Pessoa, São Luís, Maceió and Bethlehem, and very bad conditions: Rio Branco (24), Boa Vista (25), Porto Velho (26) and Macapá (27).
There are only 441 municipalities in average conditions of well-being as urban infrastructure, 28 have good conditions, and only one in very good condition that is Camboriú (SC).
The map shows small regions between light yellow and blue mean the conditions is average and good, while shades of red indicate the poor and very poor conditions.
Brazilian municipal elections and poverty
27
Sep
In the current context of the municipal elections, at which most of
President Sarney City
the candidates all over the country are debating proposals for cities and their management, the Observatório das Metrópoles promotes the release of the Urban Welfare Index of Brazilian Municipalities (IBEU-Municipal) with the purpose of providing another tool for evaluation and formulation of public policies.
The index shows a new survey on urban conditions of the 5,565 Brazilian municipalities, from the analysis of dimensions such as mobility, urban environmental conditions, housing conditions, collective services and infrastructure.
The Municipal-IBEU shows that among the greatest challenges in Brazil are the infrastructure and collective services. In evaluating the proper treatment of water and sewage, waste disposal and energy services, more than 50% of the municipalities are in bad conditions in these services.
The ranking of better cities in Brazil, in general smart cities with populations less than 17,000 habitants, concentred in São Paulo State is:
| Municipal Code | Name of the cities | Code UF | State of UF | IBEU | Ranking IBEU |
| 3508207 | Buritizal | 35 | São Paulo | 0,951 | 1º |
| 3547650 | Santa Salete | 35 | São Paulo | 0,941 | 2º |
| 3553658 | Taquaral | 35 | São Paulo | 0,937 | 3º |
| 3513850 | Dirce Reis | 35 | São Paulo | 0,936 | 4º |
| 3547205 | Santana da Ponte Pensa | 35 | São Paulo | 0,936 | 5º |
| 3515657 | Fernão | 35 | São Paulo | 0,934 | 6º |
| 3500600 | Águas de São Pedro | 35 | São Paulo | 0,934 | 7º |
| 3540002 | Pompéia | 35 | São Paulo | 0,932 | 8º |
| 3103108 | Antônio Prado de Minas | 31 | Minas Gerais | 0,931 | 9º |
| 3557105 | Votuporanga | 35 | São Paulo | 0,931 | 10º |
| 3158409 | Santana de Cataguases | 31 | Minas Gerais | 0,930 | 11º |
| 3510104 | Cândido Rodrigues | 35 | São Paulo | 0,929 | 12º |
| 3530003 | Mira Estrela | 35 | São Paulo | 0,929 | 13º |
| 4202008 | Balneário Camboriú | 42 | Santa Catarina | 0,928 | 14º |
Among the 15 Brazilian cities with better IBEU index, 12 are in the state of São Paulo, two in Minas Gerais and Santa Catarina, but between the capital Sao Paulo is only 12th.
Among the worst the city President Sarney in Maranhão State is more poverty, with rate is 0,444.
Technology, media and Heidegger
12
Sep
The question of technique brings the essence, which means in clearer terms
what is the “agency means to achieve the purpose,” for this use technology causes unease in some, it is necessary to understand the “means” They are used for certain “ends”.
Aristotle classified into four causes set for operative purposes, which in a sense are the means where the efficient cause (which reaches the ends), is one that more properly is tied to products or effectuation of the effects.
For the record the other three causes: the material, the substance that is made right thing, the formal, the essence of the thing and the end: why something exists, it is that many confuse.
In the Greek meaning the cause is walking in operative relationship, ie the effectuation can be replaced as the commitment, and the four causes can be seen as compromising the production of a thing.
Thus overcomes the idea of making something from something to an end, and we must reject even what is called use “conscious” thing “, you may have a personal interpretation or even utilitarian than is this use.
Heidegger’s sense is let go, the ocasionamento or what comes to appear, so a child is surprised by the technique and the adult is concerned, it happens something new in what may be called the natural plane, with the difference that the technically produced, that is let appear through a built environment and not something in the nature.
What appears again in Heidegger’s text “The question of technique” is that the question is not left out, but is a fit between means and ends, leaving the purely instrumental sphere to the “unveiling” of the technique, which in sometimes it’s hard throughout complexity that hides it;
What it does is establish a relationship between the use of the technique and the truth, which remains trapped when it makes its use without establishing this relationship, which means the representation of an end to the use of a technique, ie, check if we make “accurate representation” what you want to achieve (end) using this medium (technique).
The dancer Amy Purdy made a presentation of a dance accompanied by an industrial robot in Paraolimpic overture, representing man’s relationship with technology (Picture).
Social media and say nothing !
24
Aug
The media show that many people still use it improperly, to finish the
chef master program, which did not watch because cooking is a pleasure and an art, the chef Paola Corosella a judge yesterday finalized program, calls craft, but she also complained of insults, profanity, etc. who suffered for their options in the program.
What most surprises me is people who say nothing and saw celebrities, there are a lot of good is good to say, but I get at least three times many slogans of self-help, pocket spirituality and the like, do not tell me anything and it’s nice not complain, then more people come to send you the same messages.
Will Stephen was invited to participate in the famous TED programs to talk about anything, that first taste for the duration of maximum 20 minutes and then because they choose people who have what to say, I do not even like it, but I recognize someone who has something to say. He produced a fun program, and then says that guy because we are “attentive and eager to know everything about NOTHING or how to do, an uninteresting subject, subject to six minutes of pleasant thing,” here are six tips that he gave:
First I KNOW !!! No matter you are unsure, speak with absolute certainty what you are saying, many will watch and to become his followers. According gesture! His body language may appear to have convincing ability, emphasize information with gestures or changing the tone of speech, especially when talking about something that judges relevant.
After EI YOU !!! Interact with your audience, giving examples of personal or things of everyday life, it creates a relaxed mood and people can be Understanding NOTHING.
If it is difficult to assign a third NOT I AM I AM SAYING, say that the person is important and then repeat if necessary.
USE IMAGES, illustrious, create pictures, decorate the way of his speech, abusing of audiovisual resources, and last has RHYTHM, do your talks follow the ideas to completion.
But you can still be talking about ANYTHING, one will listen.
The aesthetics and philosophy
11
Aug
Lost a little of aesthetics and philosophy within what is called “art” but in
Greek philosophy had a broader meaning the Greek term aisthetiké, literally can be “one who note that realize” so it is in the eye of the beholder, more than the look of the artist, then signifying the perception of beauty, harmony.
For german´s philosopher A.G. Baumgarten, to describe what in his time was called “criticism of taste”, in a way so it may mean our perception of culture.
Over time, the philosophy has always wondered about the essence of the beautiful, a central theme of aesthetic study for Plato meant good, and the origin of all aesthetic idealist this notion remains, but in the case of Aristotle, she It means two most realistic principles: imitation theory (reminiscent of modern virtuality) and catharsis.
The neo-Platonic theory of Plotinus that strongly influenced A.C.C. Shaftesbury (English school of moral feeling) and that influence some conceptions of romantic idealism, you see only the beautiful as manifestation of the spirit and see this in Hegel.
To correctly read Hegel, we need to regain French classicism (Descartes and Boileau-Despréaux), which will appear the concepts of “clarity” and “distinction” as beauty criteria, where it is clear the influence of reason.
The idea of beautiful and sublime, will corroborate what Kant determines how character “a priori” of aesthetic judgment, identifying the beautiful as an “endless purpose” or as “science of all principles a priori of sensibility,” is the transcendental aesthetic.
This school will be names like Schiller, Goethe and W. von Humboldt, and influenced Hegel.
The William Blake’s painting (1957-1827) obre Newton (Figure) illustrates this period.
Oversimplification problems reductionist
08
Aug
As there is much current information, but little quality information, the 
reductionist principle, we should always adopt a simpler solution, like that of Ockham’s razor, between two explanations, choose the easier it seems today lead us to very complex things , which is a paradox with the principle of “simplification” reductionist.
The most reductionism is Manichaeism, that is entirely good or bad, it was something settled in the fourth century by Augustine of Hippo, to say that evil is the absence of good, but the problem returned with Hanna Arendt in “The banality of evil” or Martha Nussbaum “The fragility of goodness” or good, as some prefer translators.
Fractals are a good example of complexity, but there is the ideal simplification of numbers, the butterfly effect is another example, Edgar Morin wrote about the complex thinking.
In 1995, the Italian Piergiorgio Odifreddi, dedicated to the “liar’s paradox” of Epimenides, according to which all Cretans would be lying by a “systemic” logic.
Epimenides showed the error of worshiping gods that could not help them at all, and told them to put sheep in the Areopagus high that they would show them the place that God wanted to be worshiped. It was then that an act “mystical” the sheep down the Areopagus and went to a place where there was no kind of idolatry, there is the altar of the Unknown God that the Bible speaks, but curiously Christians are unaware of its origin.
Einstein doing a fairly simple radiciocínio, he said: “We can not solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”, ie those who are in a systemic logic may collapse without solving their problems or become liars saying it has no problems, technology is one of these.
The problem or the proper use of technology should be treated in its complexity, it is there.
Critics of Hegel
21
Jul
I consider the most important one that emerged from Husserl,
who has roots in Franz Brentano, because there arose much of existentialism, and three of the most important contemporary thinkers: Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Levinas, there is Karl Popper, a critique of part of which will be for the next post.
The first fiercest critics of Hegel are Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, both had an important influence of American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), and although both also had the influence of oriental readings, it is through this influence that can explain the transcendentalist subjectivism of both, or in other words, it has not completely broken with the egoic center of Western culture where the self is where part of the philosophy, both make speeches on the question of “will”.
Karl Marx is not just an opponent, of the belief Hegelian system in the state, and this in a way in a kind of “god”, for example, the philosophy of history, he does what he defined himself as a Hegelian head down, not a sky system for the earth, but the earth to heaven, but what was heavenly paradise Marx? A classless society, the real socialism revealed that just built new “caste” in power.
Let us return to Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), work maturity Crisis of European Sciences (1936), Husserl wrote, “our critical reflections on Kant already made clear in the danger of striking conclusions, but still obscure or, if you want the lighting pure conclusions in the form of vague anticipations … and it also became understandable how he was forced toward a mythical conceptual construction and a dangerously hostile metaphysics all true science. ”
He defended an essentiality, is famous for his phrase “return things for themselves”, but his belief in the phenomenological model that creates basis for a genuine science, rewired to be (existentialism would come with Heidegger, his student who succeeded him in the gym ) a new transcendentalism, and explained: “We ourselves will be directed to an internal transformation that we will be face to face – in direct experience – the size long felt but constantly hidden from’transcendental’. The basis of the experience revealed in his infinity, will then become the fertile soil of a philosophy of methodical work with the self-evidence, moreover, that all conceivable philosophical and scientific problems of the past are destined to be presented and resolved on this basis“, wrote Husserl.
