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La Biblioteca Central de la UNAM

University Library (1956) Mexico City, Mexico. Architects: O´Gorman, Saavedra, Martinez de Velasco.

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

Philip Roth, The Dying Animal (via wordsnquotes)

Emotion is a motion, action, process, and a destination

Ander Monson Letter to a future lover

Kurt Vonnegut’s classic lecture on the shapes of stories, now in an infographic. 

Lego-mundo

The United Nations Headquarters is now a LEGO set, part of the LEGO Architecture series that also includes the White House, the Empire State Building, and Seattle’s Space Needle. 

Pair with The Cult of LEGO. 

(↬ FastCompany)

Incommunicability, it would seem, was invented [in the eighteenth century] in order to take the banality out of mediocrity. It was incommunicability that enabled normal people in the literature at hand to come up with a story which others could find interesting.

Luhman Love as Passion

Ah, podría ser nuestro primer bocho, justa ahí, en San Miguel de Allende!

San Miguel Bug

Analytical philosophy, or some recognizable descendant of it, should be able to make a richer contribution to ethics than has often been the case up to now. If it is to do so, it will need to hold on to two truths which it tends to forget (not only in ethics, but most damagingly there): that philosophy cannot be too pure, and must merge with other kinds of understanding; and that being soberly truthful does not exclude, but may actually demand, the imagination.

Bernard Williams “Contemporary Philosophy: A Second Look”

Cuando de proteger la biodiversidad se trata, cualquier otro valor debe quedar subordinado a los resultados provisionales de la investigación inteligente y cooperativa, a la valoración en caso de conflicto, a la revisión y al consecuente reacomodo del sistema de valores característico de una racionalidad práctica y crítica. Tras el último siglo de serios destrozos en la biosfera, quizá no quepa aspirar a otra cosa que a ser mejores predecesores y evitar que las generaciones futuras nos reprochen que la cortedad de nuestros intereses y de nuestras lealtades haya sido más fuerte que nuestra obligación de cuidar la biodiversidad y procurar su continuidad. Un ambiente con facebook, twitter y skype, pero sin ranas, sin manatíes o sin monos araña es decididamente un ambiente de valor menguante.

Esteban, J. Miguel (2013),  Naturaleza y Conducta Humana. Conceptos, valores y prácticas para la educación ambiental. Ed. Palibrio: Bloomington.

Virginia Woolf on writing and consciousness in a sublime letter to her lover, Vita Sackville-West