Mateo Giraldo B.
@mateogb.bsky.social
Transparency Analyst | Researcher | Clash Mediator | Writer
Aesthetic insistence, ethical dispositions.
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«physis kruptesthai philei»
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Naturalist apprentice; telluric poetry, aesthetic constellations, gods strands.
Aesthetic insistence, ethical dispositions.
ᛘ
«physis kruptesthai philei»
🍃🍂
Naturalist apprentice; telluric poetry, aesthetic constellations, gods strands.
Who, in the ascent toward the ether, can trust that they know how to steer the chariot of the five: Daimon, Tyche, Eros, Ananke, Elpis?
Aby Warburg
Aby Warburg
December 23, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Who, in the ascent toward the ether, can trust that they know how to steer the chariot of the five: Daimon, Tyche, Eros, Ananke, Elpis?
Aby Warburg
Aby Warburg
"If we wanted not to take someone seriously, or to limit their rights or status, we would act as if their speech were just noise, an incoherent moan, or a cry, as if that person lacked reason and were therefore exempt from being a subject."
Hito Steyerl, Art Duty Free
Hito Steyerl, Art Duty Free
December 27, 2023 at 10:06 PM
"If we wanted not to take someone seriously, or to limit their rights or status, we would act as if their speech were just noise, an incoherent moan, or a cry, as if that person lacked reason and were therefore exempt from being a subject."
Hito Steyerl, Art Duty Free
Hito Steyerl, Art Duty Free
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richards graft apples, painted by william henry prestele, 1893
October 25, 2023 at 10:18 AM
richards graft apples, painted by william henry prestele, 1893
"We contemplate the same stars.
The sky is common to us.
The same firmament surrounds us.
What does it matter by what mental process each one investigates the truth?
Such a great secret cannot be reached through a single path."
—Prudentius, Libri contra Symmachum, pp. 97, 98.
The sky is common to us.
The same firmament surrounds us.
What does it matter by what mental process each one investigates the truth?
Such a great secret cannot be reached through a single path."
—Prudentius, Libri contra Symmachum, pp. 97, 98.
October 18, 2023 at 7:25 PM
"We contemplate the same stars.
The sky is common to us.
The same firmament surrounds us.
What does it matter by what mental process each one investigates the truth?
Such a great secret cannot be reached through a single path."
—Prudentius, Libri contra Symmachum, pp. 97, 98.
The sky is common to us.
The same firmament surrounds us.
What does it matter by what mental process each one investigates the truth?
Such a great secret cannot be reached through a single path."
—Prudentius, Libri contra Symmachum, pp. 97, 98.
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Martin Luther King Jr. beschreibt in seinem "Letter from Birmingham City Jail", wie die Bewegung taktisch den Ausgang der Bürgermeisterwahl abwartete, um diese nicht negativ zu beeinflussen und nicht einem rassistischen Hardliner ins Amt zu verhelfen.
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
October 16, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Martin Luther King Jr. beschreibt in seinem "Letter from Birmingham City Jail", wie die Bewegung taktisch den Ausgang der Bürgermeisterwahl abwartete, um diese nicht negativ zu beeinflussen und nicht einem rassistischen Hardliner ins Amt zu verhelfen.
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
If there are people in the world who still call for war, it is because they do not know or do not want to know about the war that is being activated in the present moment and that has been prolonged for years in spots of apparent comfort, security, unlimited consumption and "free expression".
October 14, 2023 at 12:06 PM
If there are people in the world who still call for war, it is because they do not know or do not want to know about the war that is being activated in the present moment and that has been prolonged for years in spots of apparent comfort, security, unlimited consumption and "free expression".
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Israel and Gaza were at war after Palestinian militants launched one of the biggest attacks in years from the Gaza Strip. Within hours, Israeli fighter jets began airstrikes on targets inside Gaza. Here are images from the assault and its aftermath. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/w...
October 8, 2023 at 6:03 PM
Israel and Gaza were at war after Palestinian militants launched one of the biggest attacks in years from the Gaza Strip. Within hours, Israeli fighter jets began airstrikes on targets inside Gaza. Here are images from the assault and its aftermath. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/w...
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At least 961 birds died in one night after crashing into the windows of a building in Chicago. “I’ve been in Chicago for 40 years and bird-watch all the time and I’ve never, ever seen anything like that,” a local conservation ecologist said.
Nearly 1,000 Birds Die After Striking Chicago Building
At least 961 birds died in one night in Chicago after crashing into the windows of the McCormick Place Lakeside Center during the height of the fall migration.
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2023 at 7:43 PM
At least 961 birds died in one night after crashing into the windows of a building in Chicago. “I’ve been in Chicago for 40 years and bird-watch all the time and I’ve never, ever seen anything like that,” a local conservation ecologist said.
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This photo in todays New York Times got to me. War and terror try to end hope of humanity. #war #terror
October 9, 2023 at 3:46 AM
This photo in todays New York Times got to me. War and terror try to end hope of humanity. #war #terror
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Department stores to libraries
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...
‘Chance of a century’ – could department store become Berlin’s first central library?
City’s culture minister hopes to turn Galeries Lafayette store into German capital’s ‘new living room,’ but critics question likely cost
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2023 at 7:58 AM
Department stores to libraries
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...
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Data from Nielsen shows the second #GOPDebate aired by Fox Business and simulcast on Fox News and Univision was the top-rated program on all of television Wednesday evening, pulling in 9.5 million overall viewers.
September 28, 2023 at 9:36 PM
Data from Nielsen shows the second #GOPDebate aired by Fox Business and simulcast on Fox News and Univision was the top-rated program on all of television Wednesday evening, pulling in 9.5 million overall viewers.
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“The picture’s peculiar combination of elegance, bawdiness, sensuality and erudition isn’t just a perfect example of Botero’s style—for me, it was a model of the sensibility with which I’ve strived to live my life.” New on Forms of Life, John Michael Colón pays tribute to Fernando Botero:
Humanity at Large | The Point Magazine
Growing up as I did in a decidedly nonartistic family, there were only two artists for my Colombian mother and grandmother—Gabriel García Márquez in literature […]
thepointmag.com
September 21, 2023 at 4:06 PM
“The picture’s peculiar combination of elegance, bawdiness, sensuality and erudition isn’t just a perfect example of Botero’s style—for me, it was a model of the sensibility with which I’ve strived to live my life.” New on Forms of Life, John Michael Colón pays tribute to Fernando Botero:
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Fernando Botero (Colombian, 1932-2023) - Still-life with Watermelon, oil on canvas, 1973. Source: www.tumblr.com/psikonauti.
September 24, 2023 at 2:57 AM
Fernando Botero (Colombian, 1932-2023) - Still-life with Watermelon, oil on canvas, 1973. Source: www.tumblr.com/psikonauti.
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Fernando Botero, Archangel, 1986. Oil on canvas
September 25, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Fernando Botero, Archangel, 1986. Oil on canvas
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Monsters of Ireland.
September 12, 2023 at 5:12 AM
Monsters of Ireland.
The arts (material-symbolic expressions in space and time) are the history of peoples-beings that does not yet exist.
September 11, 2023 at 7:33 PM
The arts (material-symbolic expressions in space and time) are the history of peoples-beings that does not yet exist.
Talking about inequality and indifference towards poverty and the intervals of marginalized beings:
"There is a crime that goes beyond all denunciation or claim. There is a pain that tears cannot silence. There is a failure that drowns all our triumphs."
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
"There is a crime that goes beyond all denunciation or claim. There is a pain that tears cannot silence. There is a failure that drowns all our triumphs."
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
September 11, 2023 at 6:22 PM
Talking about inequality and indifference towards poverty and the intervals of marginalized beings:
"There is a crime that goes beyond all denunciation or claim. There is a pain that tears cannot silence. There is a failure that drowns all our triumphs."
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
"There is a crime that goes beyond all denunciation or claim. There is a pain that tears cannot silence. There is a failure that drowns all our triumphs."
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck