A better world?

As more and more issues increasingly demand global solutions, the extent to which any state can independently determine its future diminishes. We therefore need to strengthen institutions for global decision-making and make them more responsible to the people they affect. This line of thought leads in the direction of a world community with its own directly elected legislature, perhaps slowly evolving along the lines of the European Union. There is little political support for such ideas at present. Apart from the threat that the idea poses to the self-interest of the citizens of the rich nations, many would say it puts too much at risk for gains that are too uncertain.

Peter Singer in One World - The ethics of Globalization

Descontextualização e Objectivismo

Eu vou buscar objectos perfeitamente normais "à prateleira". Não são velhos, nem deteriorados. O que eu faço com esses objectos chama-se "descontextualização", ou seja, recoloco-os noutro contexto. É ao fazer isto que consigo criar um novo objecto, ou como diz um amigo meu "um novo objectivismo".

Joana vasconcelos [sobre a definição do seu trabalho] in GUIADACIDADE.COM - Julho2005.

Diversité

A une époque où l'Occident entretient une relation tendue et passionnée avec l'Islam et où les musulmans se sentent de plus en plus isolés, le modèle indien constitue un exemple fort de cohabitation entre de très anciennes religions dans un cadre politique unique. Si le modèle indien, finit par s'effondrer, comme le souhaitent de nombreux militants de'extrême droite hindoue, cela aura des conséquences désastreuses pour l'Inde et pour l'ensemble de la région. Le défi qui s'offre à nous consiste à trouver une façon de transformer la complexité de notre pays en l'une de ses plus grandes vertues. Nous devons continuer à défendre cette idée dans un monde qui tend de plus en plus à simplifier, à polariser et à reduire à des dénominateurs communs simplistes.

"Cultivons donc notre diversité!"
Sunil Khilnani published in Seminar | New Delhi and in CI [nº 702, Avril 2004]

Adorno .vs. expressão

A arte não é o adorno da boa sociedade, mas sim a expressão freemente da vida.

Fernado Lopes Graça

What it means to be Modern

Like Communism and Nazism, radical Islam is modern. Though it claims to be anti-western, it is shaped as much by western ideology as by Islamic traditions. Like Marxists and neo-liberals, radical Islamists see history as a prelude to a new world. All are convinced they can remake the human condition. If there is a uniquely modern myth, this is it.

John Gray in 'Al Qaeda and what it means to be Modern'

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