Nothing is what democracy looks like: Openness, horizontality and the movement of movements by Rodrigo Nunes
Networked, horizontal forms have been at the centre of many of the political debates of the last ten years, and often been treated alternatively as the limit (by its enemies) and the solution (by its proponents) to the problems of organisation of resistance to global capitalism. This has unfortunately meant that critiques carried out ‘from [...]
The Body’s Contagious Memory Lygia Clark’s Return to the Museum by Suely Rolnik
I will give a personal example: I consider poetry to be one of the most important components of human existence, not so much in terms of value, but rather as a functional element. We should prescribe poetry in the same way as vitamins.
Félix Guattari, São Paulo, 1982[1]
The trajectory of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark occupies [...]
Written in the night: The pain of living in the present world by John Berger
I WANT to say at least something about the pain existing in the world today. Consumerist ideology, which has become the most powerful and invasive on the planet, sets out to persuade us that pain is an accident, something that we can insure against. This is the logical basis for the ideology’s pitilessness.
Everyone knows, of [...]