Albert Camus's “The Human Crisis” read by Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen, reads an English translation of a lecture by Albert Camus in 1946 at the Columbia University. The original lecture was delivered in French and had the title “La Crise de l’homme”, on the occasion of Camus only trip to the United States. What I found disturbing about this lecture is that it does not seem to be written 70 years ago, it could have been written today. What I like about it is that Camus explains to us why we should resist, why we should not simply accept the system that is presented to us as inevitable, or unique, or the only to make sense.

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RSA Animate - Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us - Daniel Pink

RSA Animate is a collection of 10 min cartoon-like animations on a whiteboard that partners with a synthesis of a conference given by renown academics in RSA Events . This series is put forward by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), who aim at a 21st century enlightenment . I first saw some of the short-film series while being in Cuba. I remember I was astonished by the amount of information they could compress in a 10 min talk. Then, I noticed that there was a great deal of post-processing after the 'natural' 30 min or so talk. Nonetheless, it is still amazing how they can manage to do it so smoothly. The animations deserve special attention. They are not only accompanying the talk but they actually supply complementary information, in terms of irony, cultural references, etc., while marking a step-by-step evolution of the speech in a better way than any slide show could do. Here is an RSA Animate example on "Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us", ...

Firing Line - Thomas Sowell with William F. Buckley, Jr. (1981)

Firing Line is a TV show from the US I discovered just a few days ago. It is always conducted by William F. Buckley, Jr. of whom it has been said to be "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half-century…". The program is a talk show based upon the interview of top level intellectual figures from the US and abroad on different topics. It has the nice quality of being intellectually challenging while often dealing with highly polemic issues. See Hoover institution archives on Firing Line broadcasts for more features and details. In particular, the interview with Prof. Thomas Sowell in 1981 (entitled "The economic lot of minorities") contains a profound debate supported with lots of data on race and gender discrimination, and how unemployment and low income rates relate to education in ethnic minorities and women. I hope you reflect on these difficult points, which are still unresolved 36 years after this interview. ...

Art online

An ever increasing number of museums is putting their art collection available online. Here are just a few: MoMA The Met The National Galery of Art Rijksmuseum The Hermitage Still, there is nothing like seeing the live, so by your train ticket and go to Milan, or any other place . Manet e la Parigi moderna Dal 08 Marzo 2017 al 02 Luglio 2017 Milano , Palazzo Reale

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