Sunday, November 23, 2008

Why Does Jaw Hurt More At Night

I want to be peace, peace in cities.

By Otto Lührs

I am ugly, I am beautiful
'm smart, I'm dumb
'm good, I'm bad
'm clumsy, I'm working
of war, peace
I am a person, I am a man
contradictory and changing.

But I want to be beautiful, intelligent, good, clever and peace
but sometimes I can only look ugly, stupid, bad, awkward and war

And here and now, above all want to be peace,
receiver generator or a mere agent, but of peace.

And I feel that here and now, I get it, I'm for peace.

Here, halfway between Malalcahuello and the Sierra Nevada, surrounded by stimuli
nature, colors, sounds and smells,
chlorophyll green, light blue;
the birds, wind and stream;
the aroma of Nothofagus and soil moisture.
Now, in the middle of the Araucanía ciclotreking Sendero de Chile,
among people who also wants to be peace.
is easy, here and now I feel peace, is I can not be war.

And some ants bite me while I write, I shake them trying not to damage them. And a horsefly
I want to draw blood, the horror without killing them. Soon
leave me alone, I will have earned their respect? Other days
ants and flies killed without hesitation.

here and now, because at least now, I'm for peace.

And I'm not another. I am the same who fights, fights and assaults.
on a bicycle in the streets of Viña, Valparaíso, Concón and lately, Valdivia.

True, sometimes there is no other, where the imposing defensive and I get combative.

(I've had to stop writing, a mating pair of beetles walking in my trousers have fallen into the notebook and pen, they are peace, even almost think of love I do not know, but they could stop, now continue their mating in the grass beside me, I can continue writing.)

is my life, my health, my integrity, my style of living which I defend.
Either I or he (she) or my space pedal or yours to crush. It is full of aggressive competition.
Yes, sometimes I'm in a I v / s bus drivers, motorists, micreros. Sometimes I'm not alone, is an "us v / s them.
Let me or us, the priority is to survive without giving up.
So how to be peace?
do not return the insult? not kicking the door of the car that's going on? how not to disturb the transition from micro to treat you with arrogance?
Then I'm for war, and I do not want to be, but sometimes I like, it's almost a game between fools blinded by testosterone and competition.

And that also me, the changing and contradictory, at times of peace, sometimes war.
How to Be as I am now in the shadow of this coihue, when cycling in traffic Picarte street? Finding
incentives for peace in the cities we build today?
I change the country, city?
I can change the country, the city?
at least try?

I want to be peace, peace in cities.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Sore Throat Blood In Sputum

A world metropolis (in crisis) Granada dissolution


Urban Area of \u200b\u200bEcologists in Action (Madrid)

November 7 metropolis A planet (in crisis) is part of the book in progress on drafting slow global energy crisis and collapse of civilization Ramón Fernández Durán.

The text takes a tour of global urbanization in the last hundred years and is one of the pieces of twentieth century analysis, which devotes a special attention because of the importance of spatial dimension global capitalism. In not addressing the development of rural areas over the last century, since that analysis is done elsewhere in the future book, although links pointing to it.
multidimensional
The ongoing global crisis, financial, economic, food, climate and ecology, and deterninantes strong linkages with the global energy crisis, which is compounded by the crisis of U.S. hegemony is manifested especially in metropolis, hence the importance of knowing the reality of the metropolis planet "who heads the urban reality of the twenty-first century.

also a key element of the current international financial crisis is its interface with the global housing crisis, and although it has been developed especially in recent years, and not the specific object of this text, it will be discussed later, this work helps to understand how, over the last three decades, especially, laid the groundwork for chaos property that has shaken, and shaken, much of the planet.

PLANET METROPOLIS (in crisis). Urban explosion of motorized transport, thanks to oil

CONTENTS
  • Boom and bust metropolitan population, fueled by fossil energy
  • The car, a key element in shaping of the twentieth century metropolis Metropolis
  • , capital accumulation and market expansion
  • The impact of the new metropolis of the territory and the city itself
  • The distant and global impact of the metropolis
  • lava tongue metropolitan reactive "globalization" and cheap energy
  • The XXI century metropolis, between the City and the Metropolis Global Poverty
  • disease of motor transport, and pathologically aggravated
    globalization
  • New Babel and the crisis postmodern metropolis social
  • Bibliography

Document pdf: http://www.eutsi.org/kea/images/stories/Kea_pdf/planetademetropolis.pdf

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