POETRY IS A VEHICLE OF MEANING: NECESSARY NOW AS EVER

Poetry is the frontier where language in use comes in contact with future meaning, and in the process, when best executed, brings a wealth of transcendent truths into the present. Poetry is relevant to all uses of language, though there may be trends that suggest popular culture is looking to new forms of poetic activity to replace specific old models: many musical artists now play the role of mythic historian or wandering troubadour, but poetry is not confined to these purposes.

RIPE FOR CHANGE (PHOTOS + ESSAY)

A “wave election”, with public sentiment clearly moving in a new direction, calling for principled governance, with a new focus on progressive aims… the climate is ripe for change, and we now face the problem of conceptualizing change, in order to see and understand its implementation.

HOW A GENERATIVE ECONOMIC STRATEGY TRUMPS 'TRICKLE-DOWN'

To understand the relevance and virtues of Barack Obama’s economic vision, we have to look at the long history of struggle between American laissez-faire capitalism and American middle-class capitalism. We are on the verge of what is likely to be a comprehensive philosophical shift in economic policy toward generative investment, which means counting as economic imperatives the resilience and productive expansion of the positive bases of economic growth, i.e. human and environmental health and well-being, resource-density and cyclical models of resource use and reproduction.

A LONG TIME COMING, A VICTORY FOR US ALL

I have long felt, as so many Americans do, a profound emotional attachment to the ideals we always speak of when we talk about our founding revolution, our enlightened democracy, our progress toward a freer and more just world. And I have always aspired to see those ideals put on display, not just by an historic moment, but by the collective awareness of millions of impassioned American citizens. This moment in history is a sea change in our collective mindset, and a victory for all Americans.

THE BODY CANNOT BELIEVE THERE IS NO HUMAN PRESENCE THERE...

On the top floor, there's a room we never use, except for storage, and it has never given any impression other than being already in use by someone other than ourselves. To set foot there is to feel that you have invaded someone's most intimate space, like walking in on someone in their last good-bye to a secret love, suddenly returned, after a long life and in the midst of a terrible agony.

US RANKS 36th IN WORLD FOR PRESS FREEDOM

According to a new report from Reporters sans Frontiers, the United States is tied for 36th in the world for press freedom, with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cape Verde, South Africa, Spain and Taiwan.

US SCHOOLS LAG BECAUSE FOCUS NOT ON CAPACITY TO REASON

The quality of US schools is in decline, because the focus in education policy has moved away from the original guiding principle: that a democratic society must have in all of its citizens, a reserve of reason and common sense, a perspective about society’s shared values, and an ability to help guide the innovation that with time helps to steer a nation toward a better, more just future.

TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY, AN ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE

Technological literacy, the ability to use, seek out, learn and re-learn, with relative independence, the technological tools now basic for top-level work output, is essential to the prolonged development of American society and to the sustainability of its lofty economic aspirations.

SOJOURN

we share
a cramped space
because we have chosen it
because we desire
one another’s
stilted
unwavering
company...

HAIKU LUCIDITY

awake / to new world / willing
breach / old barriers / with clarity
let flags / go (sullen) their way / without us
speak / the necessary / topology
turn turtle / musics into / symphonies...

EVERYONE IS ALONE, SOMETIMES

Everyone is alone in the world, separate from all else, at all times, and never truly capable of saying with certainty that things could be otherwise. This is both a fundamental existential problem and a flawed way of looking at human relationships. It is true: each individual is separated from the world by his or her perceptions, but: there is a reason why human beings cooperate, why we integrate ourselves into larger social fabrics, why we maintain relationships from birth to death, or for as long as possible.

THE WISDOM OF THE TEMPEST-TOSSED

New York is a place where everything is just a little off kilter, pushed and angled by unwavering momentum, but there is flow and the hope of flow working in the depths of personal metaphysical craft, there is the dewy first light of possibility and the wisdom of the tempest-tossed, if —as Kipling says it— “you can meet triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same”.

ZIGGURAT CENTURY: GLOBAL CIVILIZATION AS THE NEW BABEL, WITH REASON FOR HOPE

We are living in a time of unprecedented global integration, where economies, security interests, legal systems, and languages and systems of learning have been dispersed and interwoven across the globe. There are obvious positive effects to this integration, along with certain overarching and seemingly intractable problems that cause real worry for even the most hopeful or studied observers.

SALVATRICE INTERROTTA

It was not in the middle of life but at the end, or in
the beginning.
She entered barefoot dragging across from station to station of muffled voices clamoring to divulge a long guarded secret…
as she headed toward the horizon...

MINIMUM VERSE

It is quite alright with me
that I will never again depart through the front door of this House.
All I ask is that I may visit every now and again
to touch and watch its flowers grow;
for my Truth has always been and will be as the rising and setting Sun!

CASAVARIA LAUNCHES 'THE HOT SPRING', A SCIENCE & TECH. BRAINSTORMING SITE

TheHotSpring.com is a new debate and discussion forum, aimed at providing users with the flexibility to pool their resources, spout outlandish ideas, and test the ability of readers to suspend their disbelief long enough to contemplate new directions in science, technology and communications.

SENTIDO'S 'IN THE LOOP' MEDIA FORUM NOW OPERATES IN OPEN-COMMENT BLOG FORMAT

In the [ media ] Loop is Sentido's foray into thematic-analytic blogging, and is designed to put stories of vital interest, alongside media criticism, in front of readers who may have an interest to add to or to critique the pieces they find.

HYPER-CONVERGENCE OF MEDIA & SERVICES NECESSITATES NEW PARADIGM FOR SECURING PERSONAL DATA

The potential for broad-scope "electronic agents" —preprogrammed service aggregators and self-organizing databases with proactive marketing capability—, aiding in everyday information-related activities, will require a new security standard to prevent identity theft, which could become one of the gravest threats to economic performance and individual liberty.

SPEAK CLEAN & FREE

I think to myself in quiet excursion
you cannot be what you are
as you cannot be what you are not
because the world is too brief & teetering
& the sense of self is too constant & necessary
you cannot empty out the hollows
& the high sierras...

THUS AS OUR THANKS
Ryan Munson

Ode to the many sweet dreams
That saunter on November chills
The children are gifts like smiles
The wash between sun and downy leaf
So falling bliss hits are the eyes...

SELF DESTRUCTION
Ryan Munson

Gravity leak on the nine sang the dronebot Tinker
Foreseer like the tentacles slurp on the unknown seed
And next the ghetto birds wail get out get out
But alas the chains spit when driving at the sun
Nova Child and Tealeaf make eyes like dragon wing
Yet the elders laugh when the Rainbows jettison
Again and again and again...

CRISIS POLICY FORUM: FORGING SOLUTIONS FROM OPEN DEBATE

The Crisis Policy Forum is a proposed online community project with a view to fomenting open debate and discourse on humanitarian, political and economic crises across the world. CPF aims to highlight and bring about new research and policy-proposals, to produce viable, locally-relevant solutions to pervasive crises such as fresh-water scarcity, chronic poverty, access to technology and education, voting rights, agricultural sustainability, infectious disease, conflict resolution and democracy.

SENTIDO LAUNCHES SPECIAL REPORT SECTION ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

Sentido.tv is devoted to a free and independent press, and upholds the right of all people to live in societies where the presses and modern news media are open, and enjoy the freedom to deliver news that is inconvenient to those in positions of influence. Without this freedom, democracy and the business of information are in constant peril of being extinguished. Our special report on press freedom will allow readers to see what stories we publish that relate to the state of that vital freedom in today's world.

PROJECT 'QUIPU': AN INTEGRATED ECONOMIC VIEW FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

To emerge from the fog of flawed and incomplete economic and financial analysis, we need to come to grips with the fact that all resources, all functions or 'services', be they natural or the product of human ingenuity, figure somehow in economic values at all levels. Think proposes to create a system whereby live-update, rss-technology, and financial and editorial expertise, for evaluating broad economic trends and engagements, without limiting analysis to single-parameter references like GDP or individual stock indices.

 

 

DESERCIONES

deserciones y escapadas
el saber que ser libre
es también el saber vivir
en conexiones de peso e improbabilidad
fugarse en la noche
del infinito cometa de lo inaudito...

EXPOSICIÓN 'SUPERDOME' EN LE PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARÍS, EXPLORA LA DOCTRINA DEL 'SHOCK'

Recién inaugurada en el Palais de Tokyo, en París, Francia, ‘Superdome’ explora el sufrimiento humano vinculado con situaciones donde el desastre se sigue con transformaciones socio-económicas de escala casi incomprensible. La exposición concentra su atención temática en la situación que encontraron los habitantes de Nueva Orleans, cuando el huracán “Katrina” y su consecuente desintegración cívica los desplazaron hacia un caos tormentoso, su entorno físico devastado, forzados a llevar el peso extraño de ver cómo se borró la geografía económica de su ciudad para ser reemplazada por algo desconocido.

LOS DESCONFIADOS DEVOTOS

La desconfianza no es un estado de ánimo, no es una reacción a la desdicha; es una doctrina, y existe una secta dispersa que la difunde. Esta secta consta de una gente que apuesta abiertamente por la desconfianza, como cosmología o plan de vida, una lógica venenosa contra la que poco se puede hacer, porque su fuerza radica en la decisión total de sus congregantes de vivir en la desconfianza, confiados hasta la última en que no puede haber otra forma de vida más inteligente.

A LA CAZA DEL NUEVO PARADIGMA EN 'THE HOT SPRING'

TheHotSpring.com es un experimento editorial en línea, y una iniciativa para la innovación tecnológica y teórica. Ambiciona ser un foro donde se junten los usuarios para compartir y debatir ideas sobre cambios de paradigma en la ciencia, la tecnología y la teoría social, con el fin de lograr avances importantes en la resolución de problemas y para aplicaciones de alta tecnología. [Texto completo]

¿CÓMO LLEGUÉ HASTA AQUÍ?

puedo citar hechos, ilusiones, casualidades, grandes apuestas por la confianza, grandes muestras de desafío y las tormentas del alma,

puedo citar tremendismos y relámpagos, incendios y desiertos de hielo, tundra y éter, chispas y torrentes de agua salada,

puedo citar evanescencias y repeticiones...

LLUEVEN

desvanecer de una tarde nublada
esferas de sol y de añoranza
en cada mano
exaltación en la voz
que habla sólo en llanto
que canta sólo una marea casi
y un cruce de caminos
casuales y resurgentes del pasado...

BORRASCOSA CONTIENDA DE TU MIRADA

veo que sales forzosa
livianas chispas de lástima
poblando la borrascosa contienda de tu mirada
donde toda la verdad fluye
y levanta oxígenos ágiles...

BESTIA GERMINAL: YVES TANGUY EN BARCELONA
MEDITACIONES DE UN POETA NORTEAMERICANO SOBRE EL SURREALISTA TRANSNACIONAL, UN DOMINGO DE DICIEMBRE

La exposición comienza con un texto que sitúa la obra de Tanguy en "una especie de matriz original donde mar y madre son una misma cosa", y al entrar nos encontramos de manera chocante con todo lo opuesto: los juegos de un niño caprichoso carente de toda paciencia artística, y señala algo importante en la obra de Tanguy: la prisa por terminar, la impaciencia ante la idea de una obra posible.

THANKSGIVING

Tenía sentido, éramos grandes, caían las ocho del reloj y todo comenzaba, la víspera del primer ataque, soñábamos que el amor lo era todo, y tenía sentido : buscabas tus raíces en el cielo, hallaste voces matizadas y contempladoras, seres alados que te recordaban con demasiada facilidad, cómo había sido todo, antes...

DEL ÓRGANO CONCEPTUALIZADOR, DISUELTO EN EL LENGUAJE

¿Sabemos sobre qué terreno pisamos, qué fundamento se levanta debajo de nuestros pies para darnos lugar? si las palabras tienen un peso variable incluso en el momento en que se dicen, y cuál es el trasfondo de esa variación? o sea, qué mensaje escondido pueda haber en la energía que conllevan y dejan caer sobre nuestra percepción de la realidad?

FABULOSOS Y APLASTANTES (Enumerando arenas, XV)

Llegan y se van, apartando las exigencias del reloj, del mercado, del viaje en sí, fabulosos y aplastantes, un manojo de desvíos y persistencias que hacen vibraciones en el imaginario vital : un momento todo parece ser oscuridad y el extremo silencio de enfrentarse solo con las exigencias de una perversidad económica, y otro la dudosa persistencia de un poeta en su trabajo de poeta, y en el próximo amor y plenitud, sabor y melodía : la duda, el fracaso, el pánico, la pérdida y la demora eterna se desmienten en estos ratos de acercamiento repentindo a la llama, de epifanía en el darse cuenta de que lo que vive tanto dentro como alrededor de uno es fuente de luz y calidez y que puede y quiere y seguirá llegando a su vez, a lo que quiere ser o hacer en nosotros, en mí, en mi alerta y suavizado contorno...

ENUMERANDO ARENAS, VII

Existen momentos inmejorables, temporadas, ambientes, amistades, que existen justo porque están en la cumbre de lo que pueden llegar a ser, nunca serán más : y por algo existe la teoría de que todo es así, todos los momentos, todos los irrevocables fallos de lo que "nos toca" vivir, todo el sistema inmunológico psíquico que no sabemos desmentir...

ESTRÉS HÍDRICO: RETO ECONÓMICO-ECOLÓGICO GLOBAL PARA EL SIGLO XXI

El agua es uno de los componentes básicos de la vida, como suele señalarse en la ciencia, en aulas de biología, en la medicina, en la teología, debate sobre la política ambiental, y hasta en la vosmología y en la exploración del espacio exterior. Pero también es un recurso cuyo valor económico depende cada vez más de una escasez crónica y de una distribución desigual.

NEUTRALIDAD DE INTERNET: PRINCIPIO CLAVE PARA MANTENER UNA DEMOCRACIA ABIERTA

El concepto de la 'neutralidad de internet' se refiere al estado actual en los países libres, donde aquellos que controlan la infraestructura física de internet no pueden manipular ni controlar el contenido de los que publican contenido en esa red. Es un ingrediente elemental para garantizar la libertad de información que hace que la web sea tan útil y tan valiosa para la sociedad libre y abierta.

MOCHILAS KHAKI, CON SUEÑOS DE OASIS

El motivo es ya conocido, repetido en muchas películas y en muchas novelas de estirpe romántico o aventurero: el 'everyman' que es a su vez estudioso, o auto-didacta, que porta pantalones khaki, camisa blanca, a veces algún tipo de pañuelo en la cabeza, y una mochila de lienzo y cuero.

LA DISTANCIA EXPRESIVA

Amor, lejanía, indecisión, tremendismo en minucia, amigos y familiares que se van, el hogar que se desintegra, el cuerpo que vive una vida y la desvive a la vez : el ser humano es en su más profundo altruismo también egoísta, hay siempre la base del yo que lo vive todo, lo graba todo, lo recuerda y lo reformula todo, a su manera y en el idioma que más le va...

LOS DIEZ LIBROS DE ARQUITECTURA
Marco Vitruvio

Marco Vitruvio Polión, (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio). Arquitecto, escritor, ingeniero y tratadista romano del siglo I adC. Es el autor del tratado sobre arquitectura más antiguo que se conserva y el único de la Antigüedad clásica, una referencia para reproducir las formas arquitectónicas de la antigüedad greco-latina.

BESTIARIO, 2007
CAPRICHOS Y CARICATURAS QUE COBRAN VUELO

En el Bestiario de Marco Hernández, creado entre enero y febrero del 2007, en Barcelona, las formas geométricas cobran vida, se defienden del vacío con pellejos y camuflaje, parecen montar sus mascaradas y evolucionan de un paso emocional a otro, profundizando en temas que podrían ser tanto los desengaños de la niñez como las tragedias de un gran amor frustrado...

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"Numbering sands"
William Shakespeare writes in Richard II "The task he undertakes is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry..." His meaning is that a given task is near to impossible; it is possible to write some beautiful and glimmering prose or verse by examining ways in which people persist in their attempts to achieve immensely complicated or seemingly unreasonable dreams...
Politics of the Apocryphal, or Unsaid
Explore themes that are difficult to express or to unfold in language, the political effect of those themes which escape description; treat the unspoken as an expression of complex psychological anxieties, not necessarily as points of controversy...
WRITING & NAMING: the medicine of acquiring knowledge :: What takes place in the process of writing, in the spilling of ink or the posting of digital characters, the slip toward defining a landscape, however brief, is the sanctification of an individual, and by extension of the human condition as such...

Casavaria celebra el cuarto centenario de la novela El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, con una edición de la primera parte (primavera 2005) y otra de la segunda parte (primavera 2006)...

Casavaria was represented at the book fair lining Barcelona's entire city center on 23 April 2006, in collaboration with Linkgua; the day is known as the Day of the Book and coincides with the feast day of St Jordi, the city's patron saint.

ILLUSION OF THE DEFINITE & INVASIVE 'OTHER'
The push to establish a single national language can only be sustained on the basis of a number of false premises, all of which work against the interests of both a democratic society and American tradition itself.
LA DUDA, EL MISTERIO Y EL VÉRTIGO
En la duda, hay peligros, pero en la duda, también nace la fe. La duda existe, tiene que existir, porque el intelecto humano no puede tenerlo todo siempre arreglado y categorizado; nos reduce la posibilidad de comprensión infinita el hecho de estar obligados a vivir en el tiempo...

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4 MILLION KILLED IN DR CONGO SINCE 1998
12 February 2006 :: Ongoing armed conflict in D.R. Congo has taken estimated 4 million lives since 1998. The Lancet says 36,000 people per month dying from armed conflict, disease and malnutrition.
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PHILIPPINES: 'AROMA, LIGHT, COLOR, SONG'
CONTRALUZ: CONTRAST IN MINUTIA
FEAR ENDANGERS BY DECEIVING
OUR COLLECTIVE STUDY OF THE UNIVERSE
EL PODER LEGÍTIMO NO PUEDE APOYARSE EN EL EJERCICIO DESNUDO DE LA FUERZA
LOS EVANGELIOS APÓCRIFOS
NOVEDADES INELUDIBLES
'EL GRAN FILÓSOFO AMERICANO HA MUERTO'

Vol. 3, No. 1. :: FERTILITY
What role does the idea of fertility play in our cultural legacy, in our personal relationships, in our political culture, our agricultural trials, the poetry of our private sphere? In this edition, Silva explores, indirectly, through literature, metaphor and science, the value inherent in fertility, as a phenomenon of experience and a root of life...
Vol. 2, No. 2. :: THIRST & BRINE
Poetry on the subject of appetite and longing, the balance of what exists and what is desired, an hommage to the poet Pablo Neruda, featured poets of Chile and analysis of the work of Jorge Teillier, poet of limits and the hearth...