Comments for Alejandro Giacometti http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:53:51 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Convenientes Distracciones by Barrera aplicaría tres tasas a Quito http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/2010/07/convenientes-distracciones/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Barrera aplicaría tres tasas a Quito Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:53:51 +0000 http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/?p=607#comment-140 [...] Estamos muy conscientes del berrinche de los medios ecuatorianos y su cruzada por evadir ser regulados con el pretexto de defender la libertad de expresión. Sin embargo, pocos hablan de la censura de facto que es producto del monopolio que ejercen los medios privados al ser los únicos dueños de la verdad. El producto es medios totalmente mediocres dominados por opiniones y muy poco análisis. Escribí más extensamente al respecto y del excelente estudio de Isabel Ramos de la FLACSO. [...] […] Estamos muy conscientes del berrinche de los medios ecuatorianos y su cruzada por evadir ser regulados con el pretexto de defender la libertad de expresión. Sin embargo, pocos hablan de la censura de facto que es producto del monopolio que ejercen los medios privados al ser los únicos dueños de la verdad. El producto es medios totalmente mediocres dominados por opiniones y muy poco análisis. Escribí más extensamente al respecto y del excelente estudio de Isabel Ramos de la FLACSO. […]

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]]> Comment on I stole your nuts for my wife by janrito http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/2008/07/i-stole-your-nuts-for-my-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-19 janrito Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:38:26 +0000 http://blog.alejandrogiacometti.com/?p=41#comment-19 I was walking up the street after this happened and I was laughing aloud by myself thinking about all the things that I could have said. Every single one seemed better than the last... - Bone appetit - They are extra salty today, I've been walking the whole day - You can't just take them, at least give me a hug. I was walking up the street after this happened and I was laughing aloud by myself thinking about all the things that I could have said. Every single one seemed better than the last…
– Bone appetit
– They are extra salty today, I’ve been walking the whole day
– You can’t just take them, at least give me a hug.

]]> Comment on I stole your nuts for my wife by Francesco http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/2008/07/i-stole-your-nuts-for-my-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Francesco Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:26:56 +0000 http://blog.alejandrogiacometti.com/?p=41#comment-21 jajaja que buena papa! jajaja que buena papa!

]]> Comment on I stole your nuts for my wife by justin http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/2008/07/i-stole-your-nuts-for-my-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-20 justin Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:50 +0000 http://blog.alejandrogiacometti.com/?p=41#comment-20 you know, the more I think about it, this is just like a Hemingway short story! you know, the more I think about it, this is just like a Hemingway short story!

]]> Comment on I stole your nuts for my wife by justin http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/2008/07/i-stole-your-nuts-for-my-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-22 justin Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:00 +0000 http://blog.alejandrogiacometti.com/?p=41#comment-22 hahahaha, you should have told him you needed them back when she was done with them. hahahaha, you should have told him you needed them back when she was done with them.

]]> Comment on Volver by Vie! http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/2007/02/volver/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Vie! Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:13:59 +0000 http://blog.alejandrogiacometti.com/2007/02/27/volver/#comment-18 Extracts from Graham Swift's Waterland: "So how do we know - lost in the desert - that it is to the oasis of the yet-to-come we should be travelling anyway, and not to some other green Elysium that, a long while ago, we left behind? And how do we know that this mountain of baggage called History, which we are obliged to lug with us - which slows our pace to a crawl and makes us stagger off course - is really hindering us from advancing or retreating? Which way does salvation lie? No wonder we move in circles." "(...) there's this thing called civilization. It's built of hopes and dreams. It's only an idea. It's not real. It's artificial. No one ever said it was real. It's not natural. No one ever said is was natural. It's built by the learning process; by trial and error. It breaks easily. No one said it couldn't fall to bits. And no one ever said it would last forever." "My humble model for progress is the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-endingly retrieving what is lost. A dogged, vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn't go mistaken the reclamation of land for the building of empires." Extracts from Graham Swift’s Waterland:
“So how do we know — lost in the desert — that it is to the oasis of the yet-to-come we should be travelling anyway, and not to some other green Elysium that, a long while ago, we left behind? And how do we know that this mountain of baggage called History, which we are obliged to lug with us — which slows our pace to a crawl and makes us stagger off course — is really hindering us from advancing or retreating? Which way does salvation lie?
No wonder we move in circles.”

“(…) there’s this thing called civilization. It’s built of hopes and dreams. It’s only an idea. It’s not real. It’s artificial. No one ever said it was real. It’s not natural. No one ever said is was natural. It’s built by the learning process; by trial and error. It breaks easily. No one said it couldn’t fall to bits. And no one ever said it would last forever.”

“My humble model for progress is the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-endingly retrieving what is lost. A dogged, vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaken the reclamation of land for the building of empires.”

]]> Comment on Volver by raden http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/2007/02/volver/comment-page-1/#comment-17 raden Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:50:48 +0000 http://blog.alejandrogiacometti.com/2007/02/27/volver/#comment-17 There will always be a dissatisfaction for what is when held up to the memories which impugn out daily lives as distracted by their own transcience, because memories are at once without time and without discomfort and thus can never be tainted by either. The only utopia is that of nostalgia because we remember things more for what they mean than what they are. And would we really want it to be different. What art can there be if there is not conflict? There will always be a dissatisfaction for what is when held up to the memories which impugn out daily lives as distracted by their own transcience, because memories are at once without time and without discomfort and thus can never be tainted by either. The only utopia is that of nostalgia because we remember things more for what they mean than what they are. And would we really want it to be different. What art can there be if there is not conflict?

]]> Comment on Volver by Yen http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/2007/02/volver/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Yen Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:59 +0000 http://blog.alejandrogiacometti.com/2007/02/27/volver/#comment-16 I miss it, because it rings the bells of innocent youth. I believe it, because reality must be tempered with imagination. I hope for it, because it keeps us hopeful. I miss it, because it rings the bells of innocent youth. I believe it, because reality must be tempered with imagination. I hope for it, because it keeps us hopeful.

]]> Comment on Fagaras by Klausica http://www.alejandrogiacometti.com/2006/11/fagaras/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Klausica Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:53:32 +0000 http://blog.alejandrogiacometti.com/2006/11/13/fagaras/#comment-12 Addendum: web site for My Second University http://ddusleag.home.insightbb.com Addendum: web site for My Second University http://ddusleag.home.insightbb.com

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