Friday, February 6, 2009

Who Do I Write To To Cancel La Fitness




I decided to make public my living will, which I wrote at the height of my mental and physical abilities. I do so following the decision of the Italian government to prohibit the suspension nutrition and hydration, written decree to prevent the father of Eleanor Englaro to let go of his daughter after seventeen years of vegetative state artificially supported. For some time, since when Giulio Mozzi launched the idea on vibrissae bulletin, I thought to publish it. Today it seems inevitable.

Sometimes I think about death. It happens occasionally, when the mind constructs reality next hypothesis: not a fixed idea, and perhaps twenty-five years is a good thing. I learned that it is wiser to look death in the face to try to understand it for what it is, a common human destiny. I think I feel more serene, despite the discomfort of thinking from the inevitable. The Buddhist doctrine says that the first truth of life is the existence of suffering is called the noble truth
, and rightly so. E 'noble because it leads to a clear awareness, that - that my experience - helps avoid the anxiety of the future: it is worthy to be known, taught to accept and allow to dissolve the suffering. Why make their own living wills seems to me an act of conscious civilization. Then make it public is a way to emphasize the legal limbo of unconsciousness in which our society is compelled today.
few months ago I learned that this year I will have to undergo spinal surgery. I am confident that the operation, while challenging, will be fine. I'll close who loves me. However, the possibility of an error on the part of medicine and there is always convenient to put them into account. So, typing these words, I also think it is inevitable that this experience that I will do next.
may happen that one day this year, as the next, as in ten, twenty, thirty, forty, I no longer have to find a way to express rationality, feelings, instincts, and even I think is called state vegetative state, and you will not, presumably, reversible. If you ever happen to ask people who are close to me and are in a position to decide whether or not to pursue this was not to be but make the best decision, made on behalf of their respect to my beliefs and their beliefs. I ask for courage and awareness. The aggressive treatment on someone who will never draw a any real relief because it kept alive (non-conscious) only by machines is not the choice I would do to someone I love: after the time required (which will tell the individual event and medicine, and the empirical evidence) for identifying the conditions stable, after the time required for the acceptance of a situation now final, I find it fair that you decide to go ahead with the natural cycle of life and death.
I'd like to die at home, not in the hospital. I would like my organs were donated to those in need and would like to be cremated. I wish there was peace in doing this, despite its weight, you should live the present, not the past. Thank you, thank you.


Wednesday, February 4, 2009

How To Configure Desmume To Not Lag

Where is the culture in Milan? Jaar, "Questions" and Cox 18




LONDON. Discuss and write about culture in Milan in the days when one of the centers free of the metropolis, the Cox 18, is cleared by methods old and unhappy, raises doubts about the heavy awareness of this city against its social, cultural, civil and political. That's why the public project signed Alfredo Jaar, " Questions Questions " , celebrated a few days ago at a conference dedicated to the research culture in Milan and Italy (promoted, theater Litta, by province and foundation Hangar Bicocca), succeeded only partially. Over one hundred days of questions addressed to the inhabitants of Milan, through posters and video screens, panels and postcard, using space usually occupied by advertising, what they left behind in the shadow of the Palazzo Marino? And among the citizens? Doubts? Reflections on stature, but huge invisible, Antonio Gramsci, and Giuseppe Ungaretti Pierpaolo Pasolini? Maybe. They have, however, ignored any deep investigation of the critical issues and the conference "We have forgotten the culture?" Has reaffirmed the essential ambiguity. In his homeland, Chile, horrible years of the Pinochet dictatorship, Jaar Santiago had started filling up with words: "Are you happy?", he asked, a little 'a bit spontaneous' rhetoric, with his compatriots. "Questions Questions" has dropped the same formula in the mass media dictatorship that Jaar, first, to recognize the Italy of today. "What is culture? policy needs culture? Culture is social criticism? Culture, where are you? "Was read for months, and white letters on burgundy background night, on squares and streets, with trams and subways, buildings and monitor. And again: "In Search of Pasolini in Milan ...";" The culture of the emergency ..."; so on, in a chain of microprovocazioni. Many eyes were raised to read, to suffer, and a few to answer. Jaar did not seek answers: "Through these actions I wanted to work in the shadow of three masters, Gramsci, and Pasolini Ungaretti - told the Litta - to penetrate the system anywhere in its cracks, and generate an image of change through public space . Of change has never been read and written so much at least thirty years: "The culture has imagined a Barack Obama even before it existed one. Culture is powerful, "he chanted Jaar. A power, both positive and negative if, as has sharply underlined the anthropologist Marco Aime, among Guests at the conference, the term has come to replace the culture of twentieth-century race. "We are witnessing acts of cultural fundamentalism, which are based on a very simple rhetoric, that dell'ognuno 'at home' and identity as a single identity. But the cultures of the yards are always open. " Just the tools of the shipyard culture penetrate the concerns about the work of Jaar in Milan. To give them a voice was Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev , the next curator of Documenta, which has admitted difficulties in accepting, without a doubt, "Questions Questions": " Let us ask ourselves: is there really still space public or completely privatized? " . Who knows Milan from the nearest node knows how this cultural melting in a city increasingly standardized, intoxicated by private speculation. An intervention like that of Chilean may be unwittingly complicit in the superficiality of knowledge that you hear the collective, interconnected, but it is fragile. What do we mean when we speak knowingly of public art? On this key question was not answered. Only works with high schools in the artistic intentions of Jaar found suitable locations for an educational purpose, of course crucial. So who is right has insisted that all project materials are donated to schools. Training outside the perimeter, a retraining civic there was, and instead of questions of Jaar are back images of the usual publicity. And the talk of the intellectual salon. [Published in the extended version, in English, on Succoacido.net ]



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