Transformations

Coping with fundamentalism

Currently produced worldwide there is a growing rise of conservatism and fundamentalist phenomena manifested by homophobia, xenophobia, anti-feminism, racism and all forms of discrimination. How are we going to face that kind of radicalism?

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Lack of shame and absence of guilt in Brazilian corruption

After psychoanalysis and structuralism we cannot continue restricting ourselves to the conscious and the dictates of reason in the analysis of human, personal, and collective phenomena. There is a sub-conscious, pre-conscious universe, and unconscious (personal and collective), underlying our practices, which must be taken into account

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The atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the Olympic games in Rio

At the exact moment when the Olympic Games will begin in Rio de Janeiro, at 8:00 p.m. on August 6, 2016, 71 years after August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan, at the same time that corresponds to 8:15 a.m. the dreadful launching of the atomic bomb on that city will be remembered.

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Collective heroes: they are heroes because they are collective

There are human groups that solve in their own way the tension between what is personal and what is social, mine/ours, individual/society turning a personal challenge, an interest, an obstacle into a collective fact. And that speaks for itself especially in a media world that feeds from successful individualities. It is a major contribution to make achievements, creativity, and “good living” of anonymous groups of citizens visible.

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