Games, Napoleão & Google: A Loucura Americana de volta ao Futuro

Dica de Eduardo da Costa:
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
The growth of Big Pharma and the widespread adoption of U.S. health standards have made the ailing American psyche the primary diagnostic model. By 2008, for example, GlaxoSmithKline was selling over $1 billion worth of Paxil a year to the Japanese, who didn't know they had a problem with depression until drug marketers informed them.
time






The Americanization of Mental Illness
we may have yet to face one of the most remarkable effects of American-led globalization. We have for many years been busily engaged in a grand project of Americanizing the world’s understanding of mental health and illness. We may indeed be far along in homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
When we undermine local conceptions of the self and modes of healing, we may be speeding along the disorienting changes that are at the very heart of much of the world’s mental distress.
ny times


ilustração de Alex Trochut






Mais que perfeito 
O futuro se tornou mais avançado do que o imaginamos no passado, como em filmes como os da saga De Volta para o Futuro.Ok, não existem carros e skates voadores circulando pelas ruas ou ares de Nova York e São Paulo. Mas a modernidade de hoje superou as previsões feitas ontem.
aliás






The greatest films never made
Kubrick’s idea of a Napoleon biopic was rejected as too expensive and out of fashion. It’s not the only one in the can
times






Games incomodam e viram arte
Raramente os cadernos de cultura falam sobre games. Em geral, as críticas são técnicas e não observam o valor narrativo dos jogos como uma mídia privilegiada para contar histórias e levantar questões. E, sobretudo, como um referencial cultural cada vez mais compartilhado.
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Dica de revista literária de Sérgio Rodrigues:

Words without Borders 
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Google's Goal: Digitize Every Book Ever Printed
It's a private library. And it's being run for profit, big profits. Google is going to charge university scholars, ordinary people, even schoolchildren, to get access to books that Google copied without the permission of the publisher or the author.
pbs