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A highbrow series on philosophy, politics and society. Ten personalities from diverse social and geographical backgrounds reflect on the world and its future. A portrait in multiple voices of contemporary reality, revealing the deep connections that exist between our mental models and the consequences thereof in our present day - for the individual, for life and for the planet.
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Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940, Eduardo Galeano is a journalist and writer who combines fiction, history, and political analysis in his texts. He has lived in exile for the better part of his life as an opponent to the Uruguayan Dictatorship and the military dictatorship in Argentina. Returned to Montevideo in 1985, where to this day he still lives and writes. For Eduardo Galeano, life is the relation between wanting and power, between what exists and what we believe exists, between our fantasy and our actual circumstances. He highlights the systems of power that govern our world, such as colonialism, imperialism exploitation, racism or even misogyny.
Through his humanistic and poetic look, Galeano understands reality as something much richer and more diverse than the way we sometimes see it, limited as we are by a value system that restricts our comprehension and our readiness to view the unknown as an opportunity, rather than a threat. Galeano proposes to reconstruct our memory, to listen to words never heard before and to see the world with different eyes, uniting that which is separate. His great fear is that humanity is suffering from amnesia, a reason for him to keep writing to prevent the memory of the human rainbow from being erased.
Original title: Thinking Existenz - Eduardo Galeano
2013 © Licensed by First Hand Films
A highbrow series on philosophy, politics and society. Ten personalities from diverse social and geographical backgrounds reflect on the world and its future. A portrait in multiple voices of contemporary reality, revealing the deep connections that exist between our mental models and the consequences thereof in our present day - for the individual, for life and for the planet.
Subscribe to wocomoCULTURE: goo.gl/VITuUt
Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/wocomo
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940, Eduardo Galeano is a journalist and writer who combines fiction, history, and political analysis in his texts. He has lived in exile for the better part of his life as an opponent to the Uruguayan Dictatorship and the military dictatorship in Argentina. Returned to Montevideo in 1985, where to this day he still lives and writes. For Eduardo Galeano, life is the relation between wanting and power, between what exists and what we believe exists, between our fantasy and our actual circumstances. He highlights the systems of power that govern our world, such as colonialism, imperialism exploitation, racism or even misogyny.
Through his humanistic and poetic look, Galeano understands reality as something much richer and more diverse than the way we sometimes see it, limited as we are by a value system that restricts our comprehension and our readiness to view the unknown as an opportunity, rather than a threat. Galeano proposes to reconstruct our memory, to listen to words never heard before and to see the world with different eyes, uniting that which is separate. His great fear is that humanity is suffering from amnesia, a reason for him to keep writing to prevent the memory of the human rainbow from being erased.
Original title: Thinking Existenz - Eduardo Galeano
2013 © Licensed by First Hand Films
