The inevitability of What’s App

on 26/02/201926/02/2019 by Helton Levy

As What’s App becomes the standard chat app, I ponder on the app inevitability based on a few McLuhan’s insights.

Reassessing the life of Chica da Silva: A tale about Brazil

on 04/06/201821/08/2018 by Helton Levy

There is no doubt that Brazil’s history remains under-researched and under-theorised. Especially with regards to the country’s extensive colonial legacy, different periods can be open to negotiation and interpretation, but most of which are still stuck in a range of stereotypes that say little about the complexities of its characters. The biography of the 18th-century […]

Between methods and “inner experience”: The challenges of studying sexuality

on 17/05/201818/05/2018 by Helton Levy

In “Eroticism”, Georges Bataille discusses the need for methods and even science when approaching sex and sexuality. He argues that studying such subjective phenomenon, one could quit objective resources: data, methods, and traceability. One could, instead, use as scientific research oneself’s “inner” experience. As human beings, we have all experienced some erotic situation. In this case, it […]

What impressed me recently (1): Arendt, Fox, Lithuania, and Chagall

on 11/04/201817/05/2018 by Helton Levy

Hannah Arendt’s Lying in Politics (1971) Arendt’s style is not for beginners. She throws at you lots of background information, random quotes in Latin, archaic terms, tricky references. However, once we join her, at least when we think we do, it is hard not to transform her reason into a shared passion. The Watergate scandal and […]