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Albert Camus reinterprets the Sisyphus myth to find the tragic heroism in all of us

Albert Camus reinterprets the Sisyphus myth to find the tragic heroism in all of us

How Bioy Casares redeemed himself 25 years after writing a harsh preface

How Bioy Casares redeemed himself 25 years after writing a harsh preface

Intellectual cooptation and justifying the savagery. The Vietnam War by Noam Chomsky

Intellectual cooptation and justifying the savagery. The Vietnam War by Noam Chomsky

When Edgar Allan Poe taught how to write “The Raven”

When Edgar Allan Poe taught how to write “The Raven”

The typeface trying to make reading easier for dyslexics

The typeface trying to make reading easier for dyslexics

“You killed my son”: Report dissects Police action in Brazil

“You killed my son”: Report dissects Police action in Brazil

How to navigate Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid world

How to navigate Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid world

Susan Sontag explores the primitive and the modern in photography

Susan Sontag explores the primitive and the modern in photography

Deleuze and Guattari: the subversive minor literature of Franz Kafka

Deleuze and Guattari: the subversive minor literature of Franz Kafka

Solitude, pacifism and religious feeling, as seen by Albert Einstein.

Solitude, pacifism and religious feeling, as seen by Albert Einstein.

Why to expell the poets? The art in Plato's Republic

Why to expell the poets? The art in Plato's Republic

Modern literature and the death of the Author in Roland Barthes

Modern literature and the death of the Author in Roland Barthes

Being and Design: Anne-Marie Willis on the hermeneutics of our creations

Being and Design: Anne-Marie Willis on the hermeneutics of our creations

Renaissance and the birth of the modern man, according to James Joyce

Renaissance and the birth of the modern man, according to James Joyce

ART

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Nina Simone on racism, art and violence

Nina Simone on racism, art and violence

Voyeurism and the blurred reality in the paintings of Edward Hopper

Voyeurism and the blurred reality in the paintings of Edward Hopper

Professionals from the Humanities matter, we just don’t know that

Professionals from the Humanities matter, we just don’t know that

The typeface trying to make reading easier for dyslexics

The typeface trying to make reading easier for dyslexics

The book that's a work of art, made by Matisse, Joyce and Homer.

The book that's a work of art, made by Matisse, Joyce and Homer.

Titan and monster, Lord and cannibal. The myth of Cronus as seen by Goya.

Titan and monster, Lord and cannibal. The myth of Cronus as seen by Goya.

Renaissance and the birth of the modern man, according to James Joyce

Renaissance and the birth of the modern man, according to James Joyce

I was face to face with the Abaporu and I barely looked at it

I was face to face with the Abaporu and I barely looked at it

On pigs and censorship, a declaration of intent

On pigs and censorship, a declaration of intent

Bottles in the sea: online communication and the receiver with a thousand faces

Bottles in the sea: online communication and the receiver with a thousand faces

PHILOSOPHY

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Albert Camus reinterprets the Sisyphus myth to find the tragic heroism in all of us

Albert Camus reinterprets the Sisyphus myth to find the tragic heroism in all of us

On libraries by Oliver Sacks

On libraries by Oliver Sacks

The ultimate objective of the polarization is the rupture. About our stolen country.

The ultimate objective of the polarization is the rupture. About our stolen country.

Human Duties: Saramago's idea for a better world

Human Duties: Saramago's idea for a better world

Professionals from the Humanities matter, we just don’t know that

Professionals from the Humanities matter, we just don’t know that

How to navigate Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid world

How to navigate Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid world

Susan Sontag explores the primitive and the modern in photography

Susan Sontag explores the primitive and the modern in photography

Solitude, pacifism and religious feeling, as seen by Albert Einstein.

Solitude, pacifism and religious feeling, as seen by Albert Einstein.

Why to expell the poets? The art in Plato's Republic

Why to expell the poets? The art in Plato's Republic

I was face to face with the Abaporu and I barely looked at it

I was face to face with the Abaporu and I barely looked at it

On pigs and censorship, a declaration of intent

On pigs and censorship, a declaration of intent

Bottles in the sea: online communication and the receiver with a thousand faces

Bottles in the sea: online communication and the receiver with a thousand faces

ARCHITECTURE

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Simulation in modernist architecture and it’s fiction, according to Peter Eisenman

Simulation in modernist architecture and it’s fiction, according to Peter Eisenman

The alienating architectural machine projected by its alienated product, the architect

The alienating architectural machine projected by its alienated product, the architect

INTERVIEW

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Nina Simone on racism, art and violence

Nina Simone on racism, art and violence

With Virginie Despentes: Healing by writing, feminism and rape as a subject for men

With Virginie Despentes: Healing by writing, feminism and rape as a subject for men

A clumsy question and Faulkner’s powerful answer

A clumsy question and Faulkner’s powerful answer

The interview as a tool for aspiring writers

The interview as a tool for aspiring writers

On being a great writer and how almost dying made Borges try short stories

On being a great writer and how almost dying made Borges try short stories

Lygia Fagundes Telles on misogyny in literature and the objective of writing

Lygia Fagundes Telles on misogyny in literature and the objective of writing