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  • Life Is Also for Wasting Time (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    SS_09/14 → Notes from Conversas Vadias #9 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with students Notes from Conversas Vadias #9 Agostinho da Silva in conversation with students Originally broadcast by RTP on 3 May 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. There are questions that only become important after you’ve stopped trying to optimise everything. One…

  • The Lost Art of Idleness (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    The Lost Art of Idleness (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    SS_08/14 → Notes from Conversas Vadias #8 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Fernando Alves Notes from Conversas Vadias #8 Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Fernando Alves Originally broadcast by RTP on 26 April 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. Few words have been more misunderstood than idleness. Today, it usually means laziness.…

  • Who Owns an Idea? (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva

    Who Owns an Idea? (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva

    SS_07/14 → Notes from Conversas Vadias #7 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Cáceres Monteiro Notes from Conversas Vadias #7 Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Cáceres Monteiro Originally broadcast by RTP on 19 April 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. There are ideas that become more provocative with time. This is one of…

  • Acceptance Is Not Tolerance (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    Acceptance Is Not Tolerance (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    SS_06/14 → Notes from Conversas Vadias #6 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Alice Cruz Notes from Conversas Vadias #6 Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Alice Cruz Originally broadcast by RTP on 12 April 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. Some words become so familiar that we stop noticing the difference between them.…

  • I Only Miss the Future (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    I Only Miss the Future (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    SS_05/14 → Notes from Conversas Vadias #5 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Baptista Bastos Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Baptista Bastos Originally broadcast by RTP on 5 April 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. There are people who spend their lives looking backwards. Others spend them trying to preserve the present. Agostinho…

  • Life Becomes Smaller Every Time We Make It Mandatory (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    Life Becomes Smaller Every Time We Make It Mandatory (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    SS_04/14 → Notes from Conversas Vadias #4 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Isabel Barreno Notes from Conversas Vadias #4 Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Isabel Barreno Originally broadcast by RTP on 29 March 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. Every civilisation has its favourite word. Today, it might be mandatory. Mandatory education.…

  • The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Own Is Yourself (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Own Is Yourself (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    SS_03/14 → Notes from Conversas Vadias #3 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Joaquim Letria Notes from Conversas Vadias #3 Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Joaquim Letria Originally broadcast by RTP on 22 March 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. Some ideas sound poetic. Others quietly dismantle everything. This episode is full of…

  • Normality Is a Collective Performance (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    Normality Is a Collective Performance (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    SS_02/14 → Notes from Conversas Vadias #2 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Adelino Gomes Notes from Conversas Vadias #2 Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Adelino Gomes Originally broadcast by RTP on 15 March 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. One sentence was enough. I paused the episode and wrote it down immediately.…

  • The Child Was Never the Problem (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    The Child Was Never the Problem (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

    SS_01/14 -> Notes from Conversas Vadias #1 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Maria Elisa Notes from Conversas Vadias #1 Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Maria Elisa Originally broadcast by RTP on 8 March 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. Some conversations become outdated. Others quietly wait for the future. This one feels like…

  • Rules Are Not True.

    There’s something nobody told you — or they did, but wrapped in so much noise that you didn’t hear it. Rules don’t exist. Not the way they were presented to you. Not as truths. Not as natural laws. Not as the entry fee for being a decent person. They exist as meanings. As perspectives. As…