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The purpose of this paper is to disclose some issues of Brazilian Modernism (in the 1920's) and to discuss how the leading exponents of this movement attempted to shape a new and authentic way of evaluating the Brazilian national project, showing their views on cultural criticism as a whole. This paper is also an attempt to understand how contemporary criticism re-evaluates this aesthetic and critical project. The late 1970`s and early 1980`s can be seen as fundamental to all the changes in scenarios, images and discourses that took place in Brazil. These changes were not limited to the composition of pragmatic, academic and disciplinary scenarios, but there was an attempt to bring about changes in the face of Brazil. The new agenda of civil society began to be redefined and the relations between public and private worlds were in the spotlight again. The end of the authoritarian military rule was not only a rupture with the current institutional pattern, but it altered deeply the way of thinking about the country.

The painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) did a series of interviews during his career with David Sylvester. Some of them are presented in Interviews with Francis Bacon: 1962-1979, by David Sylvester, published in 1980. I’m both interested in the art and also pretty clueless, but when I’m interested, I don’t mind being clueless. (In fact, life … Continue reading “Destructive Criticism … Is Certainly the Most Helpful Criticism”
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AbstractIt is pointed out that a strategy of generalizing proofs underlies the fundamental mathematical theories of exact sciences, as an essential element leading to the accumulation of theoretical knowledge. This element is neglected by the ultra‐empiricists (Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn, Feyerabend, von Bertalanffy), with bad consequences for their followers in the sciences and in systems research.

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This overview of recent work on the relationship between economics and culture takes the occasion of the Covid-19 pandemic to reflect on the urgency of creative thinking about biopolitics, in the process questioning the utility of apparent divisions between Foucauldian- and Marxist-derived approaches to the question of social reproduction.

A review essay on a book by Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Press, 1989 [see IRPS No. 50/89c01206; also see listing in IRPS No. 88]). According to one model of social theory, the social theorist seeks to give as rich an account as possible of a society's own self-understanding or self-interpretation. The second model, by contrast, involves challenging the society's self-understanding on the basis of a radical vision of ultimate standards of judgment. Taylor claims that neither of these models should be privileged over the other; both are equiprimordial ways of theorizing social life. However, Taylor does privilege the first model in his own practice of social theory -- which can be summed up in the phrase, "the rhetoric of understanding.". 21 References. Adapted from the source document.