An artist of anguish: Otto Dix | Blind Dweller ▶️

Rising from the smokestacks of industrial Germany in the late 19th century, as Europe was beginning to grapple with the harrowing realities of conflict and societal upheaval, one artist dared to confront the raw, unvarnished truth of the human condition through his stark, provocative creations. Otto Dix, a master of Expressionism and the New Objectivity…

“Impactos da tecnologia na saúde mental” – Arthur Lima | Café Filosófico CPFL ▶️

Chegamos a tal ponto no avanço tecnológico que são desenvolvidos novos aplicativos para nos ajudar a parar de usar aplicativos. Enquanto a tecnologia prospera, como fica a nossa saúde mental? O cirurgião-dentista e Mestre em Saúde, Ambiente e Trabalho, Arthur Lima, ministra a palestra Impactos da Tecnologia na Saúde Mental. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEAr8gRnDZc&ab_channel=Caf%C3%A9Filos%C3%B3ficoCPFL Até que ponto podemos…

‘Unsavable disaster’: son of Oath Keepers founder on why he’s running for office as a Democrat | CNN ▶️

March 26, 2024 | CNN's Laura Coates speaks with Dakota Adams, the son of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, about his upbringing and his new mission to run for office in Montana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GybvlbI7PP0&ab_channel=CNN Elmer Stewart Rhodes III is an American former attorney and convicted seditionist. He founded the Oath Keepers, an American far-right anti-government militia…

Trump is making America hyperfascist – Jeff Sharlet | The Chris Hedges Report

Jeff Sharlet has spent two decades covering the intersection of extreme Christian nationalism and the far-right. In his new book, Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, he gives snapshots of a country rapidly devolving into a Christian fascism state. He captures the rage, the despair, the dislocation, the alienation, the aesthetic of violence, and…

Richard Dawkins on scientific truth, outgrowing God and life beyond Earth | Channel 4 ▶️

Richard Dawkins is one of the world's most famous atheists, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford and best-selling author of The God Delusion. His new book, Outgrowing God - A Beginner's Guide, aims to inform young people about religion and atheism. He talks to Krishnan about why he wrote it, his passion for scientific truth and…

Trump, Himmler, Putin and “Atheist Christianity”: Slavoj Žižek’s plot to save the West | Times Radio ▶️

"There is a need for radical change; if we don't do it, sorry, the right-wingers will." Slavoj Žižek "In the course of history, freedom occupies no more instants than ecstasy in the life of a mystic", Cioran wrote in History and Utopia (1960). Maybe we will soon find out the same is true about Western…

“The Flag and the Cross: White Christian nationalism and the threat to American democracy” – Philip S. Gorski | Havens Wright Center for Social Justice ▶️

A lecture by Philip Gorski examining the emergence of White Christian Nationalism (WCN) in the US and its more secularization process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed1Vd8srJJU&ab_channel=HavensWrightCenterforSocialJustice Arguing that WCN is a chief motivator of anti-democratic impulses in the current political moment, Gorski traces the development of this ideology throughout American history, suggesting that White Christian nationalism has animated the…

Politics of Hate: the Far Right in the USA and Europe | Journeyman Pictures ▶️

A far-reaching investigation into the rise of the far-right in Europe and America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YVUBWdK_rg&ab_channel=JourneymanPictures At 16 he became the leader of the Chicago Area Skinheads, later a white supremacist punk band. But when Christian Picciolini started a family, he began questioning his far right views. This timely documentary explores a changing Western political climate, chronicling…

“La memoria absoluta de las cosas: Borges, Cioran, Yourcenar, Calasso” – Sigifredo Esquivel MARÍN

Introducción  El presente ensayo elucida la relación entre literatura, arte y pensamiento como salvaguarda de la memoria de las cosas y de la humanidad. Arte, pensamiento y literatura son estrategias fundamentales para repensar la finitud, el tiempo y la memoria. De la mano de cuatro escritores notables, Jorge Luis Borges, Emil Cioran, Marguerite Yourcenar, Roberto…

“Think for yourself: breaking out of indoctrination” – Janna Levin & Richard Dawkins | The Poetry of Reality ▶️

Kant waited until the last days of his old age to perceive the dark side of existence and to indicate “the failure of any rational theodicy.” . . . Others have been luckier: to them this occurred even before they began to philosophize. Emil CIORAN, Anathemas & Admirations If you seek yourself outside yourself, then…