The Unforbidden Beauty of Islamic Aesthetics

In Islam, you are not allowed to do a lot of things. Showing your hair, drinking alcohol, kissing in public. Most of those will turn a western mind into a reasonant megaphone, expressing the western distress with the general idea of forbidding personal freedom. It is hard to beleive that islamic girls who claim to [...]

Utopia The Hidden Design Part 2

What are we allowed to change?    Here and throughout this book, I shall keep the mesoscopic alone. Things of medium size are way too visible in our cognition for us to be able to change them in an interesting way without loosing track completely, going completely bonkers. From the size of teeth to the size [...]

Utopia The Hidden Design Part 1

Not particularly tall, nor particularly small, João de Almeida is a man of vision… His main vision was seeing a ghost when he was eight years old in his aunt’s house, and he’s been using this story as his standard way to impress others ever since. Now 41, he is a construction worker, married, with [...]

Adorno, Snickers e Etologia: A informavoridade como motor do homem contemporâneo

O comportamento exploratório, nos dizem os etólogos, é uma das motivações de todos os animais. Seja um espaço vazio e um tempo dentro dele, um animal irá explorar o que quer que possa. Da revista veja até as nuances de sujeira que compõe o rodapé do canto do banheiro (sim, você não foi o único). [...]