Category Archives: Books
Árvores Alheias
“Segue teu destino,
Rega as tuas plantas,
Ama as tuas rosas.
O resto é a sombra
De árvores alheias.” (Fernando Pessoa)
The Will of Casuality
“No doubt everyone is actually present with their wills and their desires, but secretly their decisions and thoughts come to them from elsewhere. And it is in this very strange interaction that their originality lies - their destiny. The destiny we are constantly seeking to escape.What is the point of willing when, on either side [...]
Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Media Culture
Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Media Culture
By Douglas Kellner
Published in (http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/SAGE.htm)
• The first paragraph of Mr. Kellner’s is a kind of explanation of why Cultural Studies and Technology are walking together:
“Radio, television, film, and other products of media culture provide materials of which we forge our very identities; our sense of class, [...]
Unpublished
Claudia stretched her fingers and could finally touch the alarm clock at the side of her bed. With a long motion she brought the clock near her face and in a single movement studied the characters that started formatting through the green phosphorescent dial. It read 4:23 A.M. She had only a couple of hours [...]
Shiisaa
“When a certain emissary to China returned from one of his voyages to the court at Shuri Castle, he brought with him as a gift for the king a necklace decorated with a small figurine of a shisa dog. The king found it charming and wore it underneath his clothes. Now it happened that at [...]
Medi@sia: Global Media/tion in and Out of Context
This book has my artwork on its cover.
Beyond the Evening
Alan Parks was driving his truck down the route four when a drunk driver crashed at the side of the chemical tank he was tolling. It took exactly half a second for him to understand that he shouldn’t have had moved the wheel so abruptly. But when he realized that, it was already too way [...]
My Unpublished Master Thesis
Abstract:
“The objective of this research work is to create a model that can help to better understand how new technologies and Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) have introduced changes to the human daily life and consequently changed the socialization system and communication among individuals. This research work intends to go further from past research studies [...]
Recent Readings
This is a small list of my most recent non-academic readings. I strongly recommend all books in this list with exceptions of “The Dante Club”, for believing that the plot as well as the characters, as the story goes, fail to convince the reader and start to sound rather like caricatures in all their actions. [...]
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