- torquato neto
You happened to me. I was happened to
like an abandoned building by a bull-
dozer, like the van that missed my skull
happened a two-inch gash across my chin.
You went as deep down as I’d ever been.
You were inside me like my pulse. A new-
born flailing toward maternal heartbeat through
the shock of cold and glare: when you were gone,
swaddled in strange air, I was that alone
again, inventing life left after you.
- Marilyn Hacker
O Nietzsche é um filósofo romântico. Um filósofo romântico é meio que o oposto do estoicismo, porque ele valoriza o pathos, a paixão. E uma das questões centrais do estoicismo é o que se chama apatheia estoica, é manter o pathos longe. Então, do ponto de vista do Nietzsche, os estoicos se defendem da vida — porque ficam tentando construir uma paz interior que, para o Nietzsche, não significa nada. Paz interior? Que me venham as paixões.
- Luiz Felipe Pondé, Linhas Cruzadas (09/07/2026)
Então a modernidade é ansiogênica e o estoicismo é ansiolítico.
- Thaís Oyama, Linhas Cruzadas (09/07/2026)
VICTOR
Why do humans rule the world and not the apes?
DANIEL
I don't know. [...]
VICTOR
You reach out to people and you tell them a story. You take a set of data and you weave meaning around it. It's what we do; it's who we are. We're storytellers, meaning-makers. [,,,] We're really just a collection of stories we've told ourselves. Memory is our internal biography—information that we've hopped up with meaning to tell us who we are.
Silo, S03E02
Peter Schmidt no Roda Viva (29/06/2026)
(trechos)
— • —
A atenção é a matéria da experiência de ser humano.
— • —
No discurso popular, pelo menos nos Estados Unidos, se fala economia da atenção, mas a gente acha que essa frase não expressa a violência do que está acontecendo agora. A gente propõe outra metáfora para entender a situação. Essa metáfora é, em inglês, human fracking, fracking humano.
— • —
A gente precisa de santuários, isso é um conceito central de nosso trabalho, de espaços protegidos da pressão do fracking humano.
— • —
Novas tecnologias produzem novas formas de exploração, novas formas de exploração produzem novas formas de resistência.
— • —
O que podemos aprender desse momento na história é: quando você está sofrendo e todas as outras pessoas estão sofrendo também, tem que se juntar, tem que se unir, tem que conversar.
— • —
Tem duas forças históricas em jogo. Tem a força da tecnologia e tem uma força, um modelo de negócios, que explora as pessoas. São distintas. Agora, a tecnologia apoia esse modelo de negócios, mas não tem que ser assim. Então a gente acredita no mundo onde a tecnologia vai avançando, mas tem que nutrir a vida humana em vez de extorqui-la.
Time does not go beyond its maiden name.
And anyway, right now, everything tastes good.
All the male poets’ poems, and dirty, dirty chocolate layer cake.
I swallow it with a glass of milk.
The crumb crawls down my throat
and enters me. The power of Christ compels,
not I—but the wish to be changed—
everything is challenged
by the sudden flame of joy—
how uncomfortable we are with happiness.
- Bianca Stone
I want to be surrounded by splendor, but beauty is capitalism.
This is to say purchase power is how I was taught to love things
& now I am exiled in a country where living is only spectacle & roses,
never bread. How do I feed a village when my only skill is personal
acquisition, not distribution?
- Yesenia Montilla
A Swarm of Gnats
Many thousand glittering motes
Crowd forward greedily together
In trembling circles.
Extravagantly carousing away
For a whole hour rapidly vanishing,
They rave, delirious, a shrill whir,
Shivering with joy against death.
Whole kingdoms, sunk into ruin,
Whose thrones, heavy with gold, instantly scattered
Into night and legend, without leaving a trace,
Have never known of so fierce a dancing.
Hermann Hesse
Many thousand glittering motes
Crowd forward greedily together
In trembling circles.
Extravagantly carousing away
For a whole hour rapidly vanishing,
They rave, delirious, a shrill whir,
Shivering with joy against death.
Whole kingdoms, sunk into ruin,
Whose thrones, heavy with gold, instantly scattered
Into night and legend, without leaving a trace,
Have never known of so fierce a dancing.
I will never have justice. But what crumbs of it may be snatched, I will devour.
- Rhaenyra, House of the Dragon, S03E03
My hunch is that most of what we call depression is a loss of coherence.
- Martin Picard, The Diary of a CEO (July 2, 2026)
STEVEN
Again, we're theorizing here. If I don't have purpose in my life, it's gonna change the mitochondria. And if my mitochondria become more inefficient, then what? What will I notice as the next symptom?
MARTIN
Probably fatigue is the next thing that starts to pop up. You feel drained. You don't feel like you have enough energy...
STEVEN
Burnout?
MARTIN
[It] probably feels like burnout, and you start to lose enthusiasm for the future. You become more pessimistic. There's a kind of constellation of things we call depression or burnout—we put labels on these things, but really every person starts to experience life as less enjoyable, less purposeful, less meaningful, regardless of the diagnostic title we put on.
The Diary of a CEO (July 2, 2026)
6.522
There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical.
7
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
litografia
claudia roquette-pinto
mas se eu uso uma palavra nova
como tivesse uma pedra na língua
áspera troca tranca trinca
maxilares dormentes
cada síbaba faz-se displicente
o acaso de estar intrometida
entre outros rumores ainda
mais dizeres
pronuncia-se esta pepita
com lábios de desagravo
enquanto em segredo relevos
de quartzo
chacoalham num alvoroço
de dentes e ditos e datas
custa o tempo de um tropeço
lapidar uma palavra
Foolishness? No, It’s Not
Mary Oliver
Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree. To do this I have to climb branch by branch and write down the numbers in a little book. So I suppose, from their point of view, it’s reasonable that my friends say: what foolishness! She’s got her head in the clouds again.
But it’s not. Of course I have to give up, but by then I’m half crazy with the wonder of it—the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise
We now find ourselves in a world where we understand how everything works
but we know the meaning of nothing.
- John Lennox quotes Iain McGilchrist, The Diary of a CEO (June 4, 2026)
my mind empty
like the Buddhists tell you is possible
if only you don’t try.
If only I could
turn myself into a bird
like the shaman I was meant to be,
but I can’t,
I’m earthbound
and solitude is my companion,
the only one you can count on.
Don’t, don’t try to tell me otherwise.
I’ve had it all and lost it
- Ai
Remember Dorothy and the Yellow Brick Road?
There’s no pot of gold at the end,
but we keep walking that road
- Ai
I've discovered over the decades that humans are incredibly short-term oriented. And that they have an enormous predisposition to optimism. They're looking for optimistic news in everything. They're looking to avoid unpleasantness.
- Jeremy Grantham, The Diary of a CEO (June 30, 2026)
Penso que esses quatro autores desenham um arco muito interessante:
Arendt:
caminhamos porque cada ação pode inaugurar algo novo.
Bloch:
caminhamos porque o mundo ainda não está concluído e contém possibilidades latentes.
Fisher:
caminhamos mesmo quando nossa capacidade de imaginar
um futuro diferente foi profundamente reduzida.
Berlant:
caminhamos porque somos afetivamente presos a promessas que podem
nunca se cumprir — ou até nos prejudicar.
- AR
In the fields, the silos open their mouths
and let the grain dribble down their sides,
for they are overflowing.
- Ai
When are you gonna realize he's on his own path?
And sometimes you just need to get out of the way.
- Katherine, Michael (2026)
Contusion
Sylvia Plath
Color floods to the spot, dull purple.
The rest of the body is all washed-out,
The color of pearl.
In a pit of rock
The sea sucks obsessively,
One hollow the whole sea’s pivot.
The size of a fly,
The doom mark
Crawls down the wall.
The heart shuts,
The sea slides back,
The mirrors are sheeted.
Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present. The point is not that queerness is yet to arrive but that it is an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future.
- Jose Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009)
That’s one of the things 'queer' can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone’s gender, of anyone’s sexuality aren't made (or can’t be made) to signify monolithically.
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies (1993)
We’ve been seated
in the afterlife.
Here
it’s a good night
when the impala sprints off,
a good night
when the pride rips
at the carcass.
- Rae Armantrout
You play Arabic music, French music,
Madagascan music that I’ve never heard
I play UK rappers, minimal techno,
- Kae Tempest
The lily’s withered chalice falls
Around its rod of dusty gold,
And from the beech-trees on the wold
The last wood-pigeon coos and calls.
- Oscar Wilde
CARMY
You know, the chaos, it is not helpful, Marcus.
MARCUS
It means a lot coming from you.
The Bear, S05E04
I don't know. She said this one thing in the movie that, like, really stuck with me. Subtitled, but essentially, she says, "We let anxiety set limits on emotion, on feelings, on grief. And we trick ourselves into thinking there's limits because of fear."
- Marcus, The Bear, S05E04
Querido diário,
Hoje me lembrei de que, na Nekyia de Homero, Odisseu desce ao mundo dos mortos em busca de Tirésias, mas encontra também a memória: para descobrir o caminho de volta, precisa antes ouvir as vozes do passado.
Ontem assisti a Backrooms (2026), que parece caminhar por esse mesmo território. Hoje, no terceiro episódio de Proud (2026-), encontrei o poema Hold Your Own, de Kae Tempest, e descobri que ele dá nome ao livro em que Tempest recria justamente o mito de Tirésias — personagem que admiro desde Tiresia (2003).
Gosto quando essas constelações se formam sem aviso. Hoje, no Dia Internacional do Orgulho LGBTQIAPN+, todas essas vozes pareceram encontrar umas às outras.
- AR
A gente é uma performance.
Não existe uma coisa antes do que a gente é.
Não existe um ser que é antes do que a gente faz.
- João Vicente, Não Importa (25/06/2026)
There are doors opening everywhere.
We don't know why or what's connecting them.
They keep happening and we don't know how to stop them.
- Phil, Beckrooms (2026)
A ilha
Eugénio de Andrade
Tanta palavra para chegar a ti,
tanta palavra,
sem nenhuma alcançar
entre as ruínas
do delírio a ilha,
sempre mudando
de forma, de lugar, estremecida
chama, preguiçosa
vaga fugidia
do mar de Ulisses cor de vinho.
It
Rae Armantrout
The sky grayed and it was possible to name objects.
They didn’t yet call out to me. This happened only
when the sun touched their skins.
Then they would do tricks.
Perhaps a silver
bracelet of raindrops
suspended from a bone
thin twig,
almost a crib mobile.
But now I’ve called it several things.
Émile Durkhein dizia que o sagrado é a pressão que uma pessoa sente do social sobre ela, dizendo que aquilo é intocável, poderoso, especial. A ideia de que a sociedade pode levar você a pensar determinada coisa, sentir determinada coisa, tá aí; tá clara na sociologia.
(...)
Dizer que é uma construção social não adianta nada para quem sofre o mal. Por isso que o ditado americano me parece tão significativo: “Eu tô me afogando e você descreve a água.”
- Luiz Felipe Pondé, Linhas Cruzadas (25/06/2026)
Distribution
Rae Armantrout
You think category
isn’t sexy, isn’t
sex. Seems you’re wrong.
Don’t worry. We have
dozens of them, each revamping
the last. A thing
must be recognizable
in order to be
a thing. After a while
you’ll want to introduce
some novelty, but since
it’s been a while
this could come off
as desperate.
Don’t be mad.
You’d like to punish
the smug, crisply packaged
faux-finite?
We have accessories for that.
SAMI
I keep forgetting, we're strangers.
MARTIAN
I know who you are. I know who we are. This is who I am.
SAMI
Is this real?
MARTIAN
It's real.
SAMI
I recognize the face, and I love the man I recognize.
But there's someone else who I can see, who I don't know.
The Agency, S02E07
Querido diário,
Hoje, ao ler um trecho do livro Nadando no Escuro de Tomasz Jędrowski, “Uma foto de Isabelle Adjani estava enfiada entre a moldura e o vidro do espelho”, lembrei do dia em que fui ao cinema com minha mãe assistir Camille Claudel. Algumas lembranças sobrevivem assim: comprimidas entre superfícies, não inteiras, apenas a textura de um gesto, a curva de um perfil. A ausência trabalha devagar, desgastando contornos, aprofundando sulcos, polindo o que ficou — até que a saudade deixe de ser imagem e vire contínuo.
- AR
haiku /ˈhaɪ.kuː/> n. (pl. same
or haikus) a Japanese poem
of seventeen syllables, in
three lines of five, seven,
and five.
dog /dɑːɡ/> n. poet
Homework
I don’t know that word
But I’m completely certain
I didn’t eat it
Returning
Whenever you leave
The wonder of your return
Almost makes things whole
In: Coleman, Jamie. What I Lick Before Your Face ... and Other Haikus By Dogs. London: Bantam Press, 2018.
You have to understand that there are many
rooms. Each of them operates by other laws.
Here, once you name a thing, you can’t take it
back. It has its own life now, one that moves
along without concern for you. At first, you go
around talking to the trees & for just a moment
they turn to face you.
- Cameron Awkward-Rich
Yesterday down at the canal
Frank O'Hara
You say that everything is very simple and interesting
it makes me feel very wistful, like reading a great Russian novel does
i am terribly bored
sometimes it is like seeing a bad movie
other days, more often, it's like having an acute disease of the kidney
god knows it has nothing to do with the heart
nothing to do with people more interesting than myself
yak yak
that's an amusing thought
how can anyone be more amusing than oneself
how can anyone fail to be
can i borrow your forty-five
i only need one bullet preferably silver
if you can't be interesting at least you can be a legend
(but i hate all that crap)
Mechanics
Carl Phillips
I remember almost nothing now
of who he was, or how I was,
around him. I can make that matter,
or I don’t have to, it doesn’t
have to matter,
any more than the small
moth I watched struggling in
what appeared to be—torn and
otherwise empty—an abandoned
web: there was time, yet,
I might have freed it, but even
in abandonment, in what had
been abandoned—the web,
maybe, but now the moth
for sure—I saw the ghost of purpose
still having a purpose—hard not
to respect that. It’s as if
the mind somewhere
means to shut down memory,
that way preventing us from
understanding too clearly
our own unhappiness, and
in place of memory, offers up
belief. We believe we’re happy.
A atomização e a narcisização crescente da sociedade nos ensurdece perante a voz do outro. Levam igualmente à perda da empatia. Hoje, cada um presta homenagem ao culto de si mesmo. Cada um performa e se produz. Não é a personalização algorítmica da rede, mas o desaparecimento do outro, a incapacidade de ouvir atentamente, que é responsável pela crise da democracia.
- Byung-Chul Han, Infocracia: digitalização e a crise da democracia (2022)
Hedgehog
Paul Muldoon
The snail moves like a
Hovercraft, held up by a
Rubber cushion of itself,
Sharing its secret
With the hedgehog. The hedgehog
Shares its secret with no one.
We say, Hedgehog, come out
Of yourself and we will love you.
We mean no harm. We want
Only to listen to what
You have to say. We want
Your answers to our questions.
The hedgehog gives nothing
Away, keeping itself to itself.
We wonder what a hedgehog
Has to hide, why it so distrusts.
We forget the god
Under this crown of thorns.
We forget that never again
Will a god trust in the world.
Playing Army
Donovan McAbee
I died better than anybody.
My older brother said so.
He shot me from around
the corner of the house,
Pow-Pow-Pow, in quick succession.
As my body arched,
floating back towards the earth,
my rifle rolling up through the air,
all their mouths stood agape
to witness such fluid grace.
I was so damn good
every kid on the block
wanted to shoot me.
Gente, é óbvio que eu não estou falando de quem precisa seriamente [de medicação psiquiátrica], porque tem gente que precisa. Então apaga isso da mente.
- Viviane Mosé, Sem Censura (04/06/2026)
Tá bem, vou apagar.
A liberdade individual do sujeito existe na brecha do processo de freios e contrapesos entre os poderes [do Estado]. É isso que cria o Estado de Direito. O Estado de Direito não é criado por um poder acima dos outros e que se acha absoluto.
- Luiz Felipe Pondé, Linhas Cruzadas (18/06/2026)
Por que motivo a longevidade é mais importante do que o prazer?
- João Pereira Coutinho, Linhas Cruzadas (18/06/2026)
Onde quer que esteja, em qualquer lugar
na Terra, escondo dos outros a certeza de
que n ã o s o u d a q u i.
Como se tivesse sido enviado para absorver
o máximo das cores, sons, cheiros, sabores,
provar de tudo o que é
reservado ao Homem, converter o vivido
num registo mágico e levá-lo para lá, de onde
parti.
- Czesław Miłosz
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