Area of research at the intersection of Theology, Political Philosophy, Sports and Aesthetics. Graduation, Master, and Ph.D. in Philosophy at NOVA University of Lisbon. Research collaborator at IEF – University of Coimbra, member of the ENJP and IAPS. Founder and co-coordinator of AFDLP and FilArch. https://ucpages.uc.pt/en/cech/research/secondary-projects/hermeneutic-rationality/filarch/ ; http://www.afdlp.org/ His present investigation is focused on four main vectors: Humor, Politics, Sports and Architecture. https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/7C11-22D9-63EE https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7888-4457
Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn?t ju... more Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn?t just about sports or physical activity. It?s about a culture, a newborn tribe, and a collective identity that thrives within the strength of a global outdoor community. This sense of belonging is reinforced by philosophical assumptions besides a political and economic evidence: the ocean is freedom, and the sea is the last free place on the planet. You can go to the beach and the only thing you need is a board. This fact implies, and relies, on other significant determinations regarding phenomenological and spiritual dimensions. This book reflects a wide and heterogeneous set of essays that will give the reader a wide range of perspectives that depart from the Philosophy of Sport and expand also to cultural, anthropological, medical, poetic, and existential insights.
Este podcast, organizado por Luísa Ávila da Costa e Constantino Pereira Martins, coloca à dispos... more Este podcast, organizado por Luísa Ávila da Costa e Constantino Pereira Martins, coloca à disposição de investigadores e público em geral dados que podem ser valiosos e úteis para futuros estudos na área. O PODCAST DESPORTO VIVIDO, DESPORTO PENSADO enquadra-se nas actividades do Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto, que será um encontro sob a forma de apresentações e de debate livre, com o objetivo de proporcionar um encontro aberto de ideias sobre a Filosofia do Desporto, com as suas principais preocupações em relação ao presente, mas também em relação aos desafios contemporâneos na reflexão sobre o fenómeno desportivo. Os seus principais objectivos serão a partilha de conhecimentos, o fomento de um grupo de investigação e o reforço dos laços com as comunidades internacionais e com outras universidades e académicos.
CFP FilArch week - Lisbon 2024
Architecture and philosophy share a certain fragility and sensiti... more CFP FilArch week - Lisbon 2024
Architecture and philosophy share a certain fragility and sensitivity in their direct encounter with the world. Architecture benefits from the fact that it becomes stone and volume, it builds and protects itself by merging with the world, while philosophy incarnates in the world by disappearing into it, and ideas submerge into the normal course of life. Philosophy is always naked in a certain sense, it is a vital transparency. In 2017, I began to think about how much I missed a more solid bridge between the two disciplines. I humbly love the world of architecture, from the sketch in the notebook to the construction and the struggle with the material. I love construction work just as others only loved the cleanliness of the drawing board, or the hygiene of computer programs. I like it all. From the smell of paper and pencils, to the smell of stone and cement, to fresh paint in a room. And more than that, I love bridges. I write with a certain audacity in the first person because I love truth and freedom above all. I had in mind to build a real bridge. I think I've partly achieved that. At least a first platform, a base that allows for something more. A bridge has to start somewhere, ideally from both sides at the same time. But we built all this together. Some from Philosophy, others from Architecture. In 2024 we will conclude the last year of my leadership of FILARCH in a very special way. In 2024 we are proposing not just the annual conference, but a week-long celebration of FILARCH, with three symposia in anticipation of the annual conference, which this year will be dedicated to Wittgenstein. I hope you like this proposal and the challenge we've set for you. Thank you for everything. (Constantino Pereira Martins)
FILARCH is an academic international platform that aims to study and bridge Philosophy and Architecture. Created in 2019, it has become over these recent years a place of exchanging ideas, showing and sharing results and research, making new friends and meeting new people in an open minded environment. The quality of this free academic exchange is also translated into a publishing initiative that is growing and moving forward towards a rich horizon of reflections from both fields of study. In order to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue, we encourage all the people interested in Philosophy and Architecture to join us and share their ideas. All are welcome.
CFP General Overview FILARCH Week 2024
18 November Ruins (online)
19 November
Architecture, Aesthetics and Technology / Arquitectura, Estética e Tecnologia (online)
20 November
Landscapes of care Paisagens do cuidado (hybrid)
21 November 22 November
Wittgenstein and Architecture (in-person)
18-22 November, 2024 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Português/English UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA LISBON, PORTUGAL
Sport Philosophy and Ethics
An evolving discipline to guide systemic change
14th May 2024, 11h
A... more Sport Philosophy and Ethics An evolving discipline to guide systemic change
14th May 2024, 11h Auditório Alberto Amaral Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal
Organização: Luísa Ávila da Costa / Constantino Pereira Martins
Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto Permanent Seminar on the Philosophy of Sport
vertente mais prática e vivida do desporto e uma área mais teórica de investigação e reflexão. Em... more vertente mais prática e vivida do desporto e uma área mais teórica de investigação e reflexão. Embora dentro de uma lógica académica e de rigor científico, será também dado espaço a histórias de vida que partilhem a sabedoria do saber-fazer, e celebrar pessoas com percursos únicos, que possam ser acessíveis a um público mais vasto. Este podcast coloca à disposição de investigadores e público em geral dados que podem ser valiosos e úteis para futuros estudos na área. O PODCAST DESPORTO VIVIDO, DESPORTO PENSADO enquadra-se nas actividades do Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto, que será um encontro sob a forma de apresentações e de debate livre, com o objetivo de proporcionar um encontro aberto de ideias sobre a Filosofia do Desporto, com as suas principais preocupações em relação ao presente, mas também em relação aos desafios contemporâneos na reflexão sobre o fenómeno desportivo. Os seus principais objectivos serão a partilha de conhecimentos, o fomento de um grupo de investigação e o reforço dos laços com as comunidades internacionais e com outras universidades e académicos. Esperamos que seja do vosso agrado
Constantino Pereira Martins e Luísa Ávila da Costa, líderes da recente Associação de Filosofia do... more Constantino Pereira Martins e Luísa Ávila da Costa, líderes da recente Associação de Filosofia do Desporto de Língua Portuguesa que se propõe a pensar o Desporto que “em meio século de democracia, nunca foi pensado a sério, ou seja, estruturalmente e a longo prazo”, analisam as ideias do executivo de Luís Montenegro para o setor. Após lerem o Programa de Governo, destacam “um problema da tradição democrática portuguesa de apresentação de programas de intenções, mais ou menos generalistas, que é muito diferente de processos, de um pragmatismo que se exige, ou seja, falta, para além de se descrever o que se idealiza fazer, explicar o como se faz”
Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn’t ju... more Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn’t just about sports or physical activity. It’s about a culture, a newborn tribe, and a collective identity that thrives within the strength of a global outdoor community. This sense of belonging is reinforced by philosophical assumptions besides a political and economic evidence: the ocean is freedom, and the sea is the last free place on the planet. You can go to the beach and the only thing you need is a board. This fact implies, and relies, on other significant determinations regarding phenomenological and spiritual dimensions.
O PODCAST DESPORTO VIVIDO, DESPORTO PENSADO enquadra-se nas actividades do Seminário Permanente d... more O PODCAST DESPORTO VIVIDO, DESPORTO PENSADO enquadra-se nas actividades do Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto, que será um encontro sob a forma de apresentações e de debate livre, com o objetivo de proporcionar um encontro aberto de ideias sobre a Filosofia do Desporto, com as suas principais preocupações em relação ao presente, mas também em relação aos desafios contemporâneos na reflexão sobre o fenómeno desportivo. Os seus principais objectivos serão a partilha de conhecimentos, o fomento de um grupo de investigação e o reforço dos laços com as comunidades internacionais e com outras universidades e académicos.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Robotpolitics is the final follow-up conference that intends to close a threef... more CALL FOR PAPERS
Robotpolitics is the final follow-up conference that intends to close a threefold system, following the expansion of Cyberpolitics and Technopolitics, resuming to all the dimensions and effects of the technological revolution in our lives, but placing politics at the center of debate and thought. If in our present there seems to be a diversity of doorways to enter this global shifting paradigm, that we are still trying to map and assess, it has become clear in the last years that we are heading towards a profound systemic and civilizational transformation, a point of no return. Starting from the premise of a philosophical and genealogical reconstruction of an ancient notion of the slave, at the heart of the problem of mediation-mechanization-automation, there always seems to have been the idea inscribed in fire in the faculty of the imagination that we can demultiply strength or intelligence into external, auxiliary or prosthetic forms, the messianic idea that work under the sun of days can be lighter, that we were ment for something higher. The ideas of repetition and exhaustion are obviously the most fearsome, not only because of their boredom and meaninglessness but also because of the smell of death and uselessness they carry. The body as a central and multiplied problem, individual, collective, and general, as a system for organizing thought and world vision, is transmuted from flesh to hybrid, from metal to ethereal. Mechanization and social atomization, accelerated by the convergence of multiple parallel variables, seem to indicate to a point of convergence and final focus: the introduction and participation of robots in social, affective, and economic life on a global scale. Between liberalism and the control society, a profound, irreparable, and irrecoverable clash is anticipated from this point zero, which will transform the course of human history forever. On the razor's edge, political affections are divided between a liberating vision, which will finally take human existence to a level of searching for its essence, freed from mundane tasks, and another terrifying one, a cut with nature, unpredictable, a philosophical dream that sounds like a pandora's nightmare in which the human form becomes dispensable, if not obsolete. Inevitably, in the urgency of the little that has already opened up and is foreseeable, some are looking for a third way that seeks to guard with the necessary prudence against a step that could be bigger than its legs. Another aspect of Robotpolitics concerns the possibility of transhumanism. For a long time now, man has been trying to escape the prisons that the body, as a biological entity, seems to constitute. Cyborgs, i.e. a middle ground between pure technology and pure flesh, are already visible on the horizon and can bridge the gap between artificial structures with advanced intelligence and man. Super-soldiers, but also super-academics could emerge from this exchange of naturophobic or technophilic solutions, in a kind of reinvented gnosis. The digital revolution is undoubtedly a trendsetter within the current digital and political zeitgeist. That is because the latter revolution standardizes and automatizes consumer and citizen behavior. Indeed, the digital revolution shapes and impacts the sociopolitical and socioeconomic trends all over the World. Furthermore, the digital revolution poses several threats to capitalism as a dominant economic doctrine in the West. As a result, there is no agreement among economists on whether Western countries need more (or less) state intervention to preserve the basic rights of their citizens throughout the current digital revolution. Nevertheless, economists agree that more (or less) interventionism in economic policy would bear two possible diametrically opposite effects. On the one hand, more state intervention would result in more spending on subsidies to sustain the demand of those households whose primary source of income is threatened by labor automation. For instance, the arguments for introducing a basic income policy have dramatically increased over the last few years. Though valuable in their purposes, those arguments often ignore the fact that introducing a basic income policy would have devastating effects on taxation policies. That is because of two primary reasons. Firstly, Western countries are more indebted than they were before. Hence, increasing spending would result in increased public debt. Secondly, and because of the first point, increasing spending would result in increased taxation in countries whose population is shrinking and aging faster than in developing countries. On the other hand, the increased availability of cheap technology for production has also caused a dramatic rise in the arguments in favor of less state intervention. That is because the availability of cheap technology lowers the marginal cost of production. Accordingly, its large availability involves more opportunities for entrepreneurs, lower transaction costs, more choice of goods and services (i.e., more value-added for Western economies), and more demand for qualified workers. Accordingly—the argument goes—fewer state intervention involves paying out subsidies to requalify workers now and a decrease in overall spending when the entrepreneurs can provide more than the State can provide. In this way, overall taxation would also decrease over time. These two problems pose two big philosophical questions that have been so far unanswered. Firstly, how will the digital revolution affect and reshape political and economic freedom in the West? Secondly, how will the digital revolution affect and reshape state intervention over the upcoming years? These issues do not concern only the domain of economics. Indeed, both issues concern many other academic disciplines: philosophy, sociology, and political science. Thus, we invite contributors from these fields to participate in this conference because we aim to provide exhaustive answers to these questions.
ROBOTPOLITICS 2024 provides an open academic setting which will certainly open a rich horizon for reflections from diverse fields of study. In order to promote a transdisciplinary dialogue, with contributions from the entire spectrum of academic knowledge, the submission of proposals, on the following topics are particularly encouraged:
1. Robotics 2. Philosophy of Technology and Science 3. Political economy, Macroeconomy 4. Transhumanism 5. Epistemology and History of science 6. Technognose 7. Artificial intelligence 8. Sex, love and robotics 9. Space exploration: new horizons 10. Genetics, biotechnology and care 11. Robot industry 12. Macro and political economy 13. Applied robotphilosophy: medicine, health, wars, governance, society, etc 14. Political theory and economic impact 15. History and myths 16. Authors and particular perspectives 17. Aesthetics, literature, arts, cinema, etc
Abstracts should be sent to constantinomar@gmail.com with a small biographical note and may be submitted in English or Portuguese. Presentations will be 20 minutes in English or Portuguese, plus 10 min. Q&A. The full and final texts will be published in e-book format in English and Portuguese. Participation and attendance are free.
Broken body A philosophical anthropology inquiry into fighting This essay delves into the multifa... more Broken body A philosophical anthropology inquiry into fighting This essay delves into the multifaceted meanings of the word "heart", particularly its philosophical and metaphorical association in combat sports. Symbolically linked to courage, this connection traces back to ancient Greek philosophy, portraying the heart as a rational and natural source of virtue and bravery. The analysis unfolds in two distinct sections: firstly, a philosophical genealogy dissects the rational dimensions of the term under examination, highlighting its various associations and meanings. Secondly, an exploration of the qualities inherent in a fighter is undertaken by focusing on the imagery surrounding the notion of "heart". The essay employs a blend of pragmatism and mysticism, drawing from the experiences and testimonies of Muay Thai fighters and trainers. This approach aims to uncover the elusive and mysterious aspects of courage, transcending the limitations of language in exploring the essence of these rare qualities. This will be an attempt to penetrate the realm of those scarce things where words seem to abandon us.
This documentary focuses on a combat sport that originated in Thailand called Thai Boxing or Muay... more This documentary focuses on a combat sport that originated in Thailand called Thai Boxing or Muay Thai. Since it is impossible to make a complete film that portrays the origins of this sport in Portugal, it was decided to give priority to one of its pioneers and to focus on the 1990s in the city of Lisbon.
Ideally, the film could be a foundational historical document, from the Portuguese fighter who appears in one of the most famous action and fight films to comprehensive national coverage. But that would probably suit a TV series better than a documentary film. In fact, this is a period movie made by friends and with friends. It is this friendship that ultimately justifies the movie's will to exist. The actors are almost entirely from one of Lisbon's most paradigmatic neighborhoods. Apart from this initial and final justification, the film tries to show some of the most important fighters of this early era of Muay Thai in Portugal and the trainer who brought them together, either through some stories and adventures or essentially by sharing memories. And that seems to remain the essence of cinema: memory, or for future memory.
In this manner, the documentary aims to cover the 1990s up to the early years of the 21st century, allowing for an aesthetic and existential arch, which in technical terms coincides with different tonalities of image and recording techniques, which gives this film a unique identity and characteristics, as it simultaneously constitutes a unique testimony and archive of the history of sport in Portugal.
Beauty doesn't need words. It doesn't need support or foundation. Perhaps the only true and neces... more Beauty doesn't need words. It doesn't need support or foundation. Perhaps the only true and necessary thing in life is to pay homage to the beautiful things we love, knowing that others will love them too, long after we are gone. This bond that is created between the living and the dead, and those to come, is the root of our society, our culture, our civilization. The history of humanity has been connected for many centuries to the relationship developed with the horse. This relationship allowed us to build the basis of our survival and thrive, creating an alliance with several domesticated animals, among which the horse is the most paradoxical, never losing its autonomy. A tribute is a celebration. We seek to celebrate the beauty of the horse, its freedom, its strength, kindness, character and all the symbolic attributes and characteristics that we admire in its indomitable spirit. Celebrating the horse and the horse culture means trying to dialogue with all the worlds it inhabits, from the pastures where it still works, to sport, therapy, in a word, to think and research in all its multidimensionality.
Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn?t ju... more Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn?t just about sports or physical activity. It?s about a culture, a newborn tribe, and a collective identity that thrives within the strength of a global outdoor community. This sense of belonging is reinforced by philosophical assumptions besides a political and economic evidence: the ocean is freedom, and the sea is the last free place on the planet. You can go to the beach and the only thing you need is a board. This fact implies, and relies, on other significant determinations regarding phenomenological and spiritual dimensions. This book reflects a wide and heterogeneous set of essays that will give the reader a wide range of perspectives that depart from the Philosophy of Sport and expand also to cultural, anthropological, medical, poetic, and existential insights.
Este podcast, organizado por Luísa Ávila da Costa e Constantino Pereira Martins, coloca à dispos... more Este podcast, organizado por Luísa Ávila da Costa e Constantino Pereira Martins, coloca à disposição de investigadores e público em geral dados que podem ser valiosos e úteis para futuros estudos na área. O PODCAST DESPORTO VIVIDO, DESPORTO PENSADO enquadra-se nas actividades do Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto, que será um encontro sob a forma de apresentações e de debate livre, com o objetivo de proporcionar um encontro aberto de ideias sobre a Filosofia do Desporto, com as suas principais preocupações em relação ao presente, mas também em relação aos desafios contemporâneos na reflexão sobre o fenómeno desportivo. Os seus principais objectivos serão a partilha de conhecimentos, o fomento de um grupo de investigação e o reforço dos laços com as comunidades internacionais e com outras universidades e académicos.
CFP FilArch week - Lisbon 2024
Architecture and philosophy share a certain fragility and sensiti... more CFP FilArch week - Lisbon 2024
Architecture and philosophy share a certain fragility and sensitivity in their direct encounter with the world. Architecture benefits from the fact that it becomes stone and volume, it builds and protects itself by merging with the world, while philosophy incarnates in the world by disappearing into it, and ideas submerge into the normal course of life. Philosophy is always naked in a certain sense, it is a vital transparency. In 2017, I began to think about how much I missed a more solid bridge between the two disciplines. I humbly love the world of architecture, from the sketch in the notebook to the construction and the struggle with the material. I love construction work just as others only loved the cleanliness of the drawing board, or the hygiene of computer programs. I like it all. From the smell of paper and pencils, to the smell of stone and cement, to fresh paint in a room. And more than that, I love bridges. I write with a certain audacity in the first person because I love truth and freedom above all. I had in mind to build a real bridge. I think I've partly achieved that. At least a first platform, a base that allows for something more. A bridge has to start somewhere, ideally from both sides at the same time. But we built all this together. Some from Philosophy, others from Architecture. In 2024 we will conclude the last year of my leadership of FILARCH in a very special way. In 2024 we are proposing not just the annual conference, but a week-long celebration of FILARCH, with three symposia in anticipation of the annual conference, which this year will be dedicated to Wittgenstein. I hope you like this proposal and the challenge we've set for you. Thank you for everything. (Constantino Pereira Martins)
FILARCH is an academic international platform that aims to study and bridge Philosophy and Architecture. Created in 2019, it has become over these recent years a place of exchanging ideas, showing and sharing results and research, making new friends and meeting new people in an open minded environment. The quality of this free academic exchange is also translated into a publishing initiative that is growing and moving forward towards a rich horizon of reflections from both fields of study. In order to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue, we encourage all the people interested in Philosophy and Architecture to join us and share their ideas. All are welcome.
CFP General Overview FILARCH Week 2024
18 November Ruins (online)
19 November
Architecture, Aesthetics and Technology / Arquitectura, Estética e Tecnologia (online)
20 November
Landscapes of care Paisagens do cuidado (hybrid)
21 November 22 November
Wittgenstein and Architecture (in-person)
18-22 November, 2024 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Português/English UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA LISBON, PORTUGAL
Sport Philosophy and Ethics
An evolving discipline to guide systemic change
14th May 2024, 11h
A... more Sport Philosophy and Ethics An evolving discipline to guide systemic change
14th May 2024, 11h Auditório Alberto Amaral Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal
Organização: Luísa Ávila da Costa / Constantino Pereira Martins
Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto Permanent Seminar on the Philosophy of Sport
vertente mais prática e vivida do desporto e uma área mais teórica de investigação e reflexão. Em... more vertente mais prática e vivida do desporto e uma área mais teórica de investigação e reflexão. Embora dentro de uma lógica académica e de rigor científico, será também dado espaço a histórias de vida que partilhem a sabedoria do saber-fazer, e celebrar pessoas com percursos únicos, que possam ser acessíveis a um público mais vasto. Este podcast coloca à disposição de investigadores e público em geral dados que podem ser valiosos e úteis para futuros estudos na área. O PODCAST DESPORTO VIVIDO, DESPORTO PENSADO enquadra-se nas actividades do Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto, que será um encontro sob a forma de apresentações e de debate livre, com o objetivo de proporcionar um encontro aberto de ideias sobre a Filosofia do Desporto, com as suas principais preocupações em relação ao presente, mas também em relação aos desafios contemporâneos na reflexão sobre o fenómeno desportivo. Os seus principais objectivos serão a partilha de conhecimentos, o fomento de um grupo de investigação e o reforço dos laços com as comunidades internacionais e com outras universidades e académicos. Esperamos que seja do vosso agrado
Constantino Pereira Martins e Luísa Ávila da Costa, líderes da recente Associação de Filosofia do... more Constantino Pereira Martins e Luísa Ávila da Costa, líderes da recente Associação de Filosofia do Desporto de Língua Portuguesa que se propõe a pensar o Desporto que “em meio século de democracia, nunca foi pensado a sério, ou seja, estruturalmente e a longo prazo”, analisam as ideias do executivo de Luís Montenegro para o setor. Após lerem o Programa de Governo, destacam “um problema da tradição democrática portuguesa de apresentação de programas de intenções, mais ou menos generalistas, que é muito diferente de processos, de um pragmatismo que se exige, ou seja, falta, para além de se descrever o que se idealiza fazer, explicar o como se faz”
Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn’t ju... more Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn’t just about sports or physical activity. It’s about a culture, a newborn tribe, and a collective identity that thrives within the strength of a global outdoor community. This sense of belonging is reinforced by philosophical assumptions besides a political and economic evidence: the ocean is freedom, and the sea is the last free place on the planet. You can go to the beach and the only thing you need is a board. This fact implies, and relies, on other significant determinations regarding phenomenological and spiritual dimensions.
O PODCAST DESPORTO VIVIDO, DESPORTO PENSADO enquadra-se nas actividades do Seminário Permanente d... more O PODCAST DESPORTO VIVIDO, DESPORTO PENSADO enquadra-se nas actividades do Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto, que será um encontro sob a forma de apresentações e de debate livre, com o objetivo de proporcionar um encontro aberto de ideias sobre a Filosofia do Desporto, com as suas principais preocupações em relação ao presente, mas também em relação aos desafios contemporâneos na reflexão sobre o fenómeno desportivo. Os seus principais objectivos serão a partilha de conhecimentos, o fomento de um grupo de investigação e o reforço dos laços com as comunidades internacionais e com outras universidades e académicos.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Robotpolitics is the final follow-up conference that intends to close a threef... more CALL FOR PAPERS
Robotpolitics is the final follow-up conference that intends to close a threefold system, following the expansion of Cyberpolitics and Technopolitics, resuming to all the dimensions and effects of the technological revolution in our lives, but placing politics at the center of debate and thought. If in our present there seems to be a diversity of doorways to enter this global shifting paradigm, that we are still trying to map and assess, it has become clear in the last years that we are heading towards a profound systemic and civilizational transformation, a point of no return. Starting from the premise of a philosophical and genealogical reconstruction of an ancient notion of the slave, at the heart of the problem of mediation-mechanization-automation, there always seems to have been the idea inscribed in fire in the faculty of the imagination that we can demultiply strength or intelligence into external, auxiliary or prosthetic forms, the messianic idea that work under the sun of days can be lighter, that we were ment for something higher. The ideas of repetition and exhaustion are obviously the most fearsome, not only because of their boredom and meaninglessness but also because of the smell of death and uselessness they carry. The body as a central and multiplied problem, individual, collective, and general, as a system for organizing thought and world vision, is transmuted from flesh to hybrid, from metal to ethereal. Mechanization and social atomization, accelerated by the convergence of multiple parallel variables, seem to indicate to a point of convergence and final focus: the introduction and participation of robots in social, affective, and economic life on a global scale. Between liberalism and the control society, a profound, irreparable, and irrecoverable clash is anticipated from this point zero, which will transform the course of human history forever. On the razor's edge, political affections are divided between a liberating vision, which will finally take human existence to a level of searching for its essence, freed from mundane tasks, and another terrifying one, a cut with nature, unpredictable, a philosophical dream that sounds like a pandora's nightmare in which the human form becomes dispensable, if not obsolete. Inevitably, in the urgency of the little that has already opened up and is foreseeable, some are looking for a third way that seeks to guard with the necessary prudence against a step that could be bigger than its legs. Another aspect of Robotpolitics concerns the possibility of transhumanism. For a long time now, man has been trying to escape the prisons that the body, as a biological entity, seems to constitute. Cyborgs, i.e. a middle ground between pure technology and pure flesh, are already visible on the horizon and can bridge the gap between artificial structures with advanced intelligence and man. Super-soldiers, but also super-academics could emerge from this exchange of naturophobic or technophilic solutions, in a kind of reinvented gnosis. The digital revolution is undoubtedly a trendsetter within the current digital and political zeitgeist. That is because the latter revolution standardizes and automatizes consumer and citizen behavior. Indeed, the digital revolution shapes and impacts the sociopolitical and socioeconomic trends all over the World. Furthermore, the digital revolution poses several threats to capitalism as a dominant economic doctrine in the West. As a result, there is no agreement among economists on whether Western countries need more (or less) state intervention to preserve the basic rights of their citizens throughout the current digital revolution. Nevertheless, economists agree that more (or less) interventionism in economic policy would bear two possible diametrically opposite effects. On the one hand, more state intervention would result in more spending on subsidies to sustain the demand of those households whose primary source of income is threatened by labor automation. For instance, the arguments for introducing a basic income policy have dramatically increased over the last few years. Though valuable in their purposes, those arguments often ignore the fact that introducing a basic income policy would have devastating effects on taxation policies. That is because of two primary reasons. Firstly, Western countries are more indebted than they were before. Hence, increasing spending would result in increased public debt. Secondly, and because of the first point, increasing spending would result in increased taxation in countries whose population is shrinking and aging faster than in developing countries. On the other hand, the increased availability of cheap technology for production has also caused a dramatic rise in the arguments in favor of less state intervention. That is because the availability of cheap technology lowers the marginal cost of production. Accordingly, its large availability involves more opportunities for entrepreneurs, lower transaction costs, more choice of goods and services (i.e., more value-added for Western economies), and more demand for qualified workers. Accordingly—the argument goes—fewer state intervention involves paying out subsidies to requalify workers now and a decrease in overall spending when the entrepreneurs can provide more than the State can provide. In this way, overall taxation would also decrease over time. These two problems pose two big philosophical questions that have been so far unanswered. Firstly, how will the digital revolution affect and reshape political and economic freedom in the West? Secondly, how will the digital revolution affect and reshape state intervention over the upcoming years? These issues do not concern only the domain of economics. Indeed, both issues concern many other academic disciplines: philosophy, sociology, and political science. Thus, we invite contributors from these fields to participate in this conference because we aim to provide exhaustive answers to these questions.
ROBOTPOLITICS 2024 provides an open academic setting which will certainly open a rich horizon for reflections from diverse fields of study. In order to promote a transdisciplinary dialogue, with contributions from the entire spectrum of academic knowledge, the submission of proposals, on the following topics are particularly encouraged:
1. Robotics 2. Philosophy of Technology and Science 3. Political economy, Macroeconomy 4. Transhumanism 5. Epistemology and History of science 6. Technognose 7. Artificial intelligence 8. Sex, love and robotics 9. Space exploration: new horizons 10. Genetics, biotechnology and care 11. Robot industry 12. Macro and political economy 13. Applied robotphilosophy: medicine, health, wars, governance, society, etc 14. Political theory and economic impact 15. History and myths 16. Authors and particular perspectives 17. Aesthetics, literature, arts, cinema, etc
Abstracts should be sent to constantinomar@gmail.com with a small biographical note and may be submitted in English or Portuguese. Presentations will be 20 minutes in English or Portuguese, plus 10 min. Q&A. The full and final texts will be published in e-book format in English and Portuguese. Participation and attendance are free.
Broken body A philosophical anthropology inquiry into fighting This essay delves into the multifa... more Broken body A philosophical anthropology inquiry into fighting This essay delves into the multifaceted meanings of the word "heart", particularly its philosophical and metaphorical association in combat sports. Symbolically linked to courage, this connection traces back to ancient Greek philosophy, portraying the heart as a rational and natural source of virtue and bravery. The analysis unfolds in two distinct sections: firstly, a philosophical genealogy dissects the rational dimensions of the term under examination, highlighting its various associations and meanings. Secondly, an exploration of the qualities inherent in a fighter is undertaken by focusing on the imagery surrounding the notion of "heart". The essay employs a blend of pragmatism and mysticism, drawing from the experiences and testimonies of Muay Thai fighters and trainers. This approach aims to uncover the elusive and mysterious aspects of courage, transcending the limitations of language in exploring the essence of these rare qualities. This will be an attempt to penetrate the realm of those scarce things where words seem to abandon us.
This documentary focuses on a combat sport that originated in Thailand called Thai Boxing or Muay... more This documentary focuses on a combat sport that originated in Thailand called Thai Boxing or Muay Thai. Since it is impossible to make a complete film that portrays the origins of this sport in Portugal, it was decided to give priority to one of its pioneers and to focus on the 1990s in the city of Lisbon.
Ideally, the film could be a foundational historical document, from the Portuguese fighter who appears in one of the most famous action and fight films to comprehensive national coverage. But that would probably suit a TV series better than a documentary film. In fact, this is a period movie made by friends and with friends. It is this friendship that ultimately justifies the movie's will to exist. The actors are almost entirely from one of Lisbon's most paradigmatic neighborhoods. Apart from this initial and final justification, the film tries to show some of the most important fighters of this early era of Muay Thai in Portugal and the trainer who brought them together, either through some stories and adventures or essentially by sharing memories. And that seems to remain the essence of cinema: memory, or for future memory.
In this manner, the documentary aims to cover the 1990s up to the early years of the 21st century, allowing for an aesthetic and existential arch, which in technical terms coincides with different tonalities of image and recording techniques, which gives this film a unique identity and characteristics, as it simultaneously constitutes a unique testimony and archive of the history of sport in Portugal.
Beauty doesn't need words. It doesn't need support or foundation. Perhaps the only true and neces... more Beauty doesn't need words. It doesn't need support or foundation. Perhaps the only true and necessary thing in life is to pay homage to the beautiful things we love, knowing that others will love them too, long after we are gone. This bond that is created between the living and the dead, and those to come, is the root of our society, our culture, our civilization. The history of humanity has been connected for many centuries to the relationship developed with the horse. This relationship allowed us to build the basis of our survival and thrive, creating an alliance with several domesticated animals, among which the horse is the most paradoxical, never losing its autonomy. A tribute is a celebration. We seek to celebrate the beauty of the horse, its freedom, its strength, kindness, character and all the symbolic attributes and characteristics that we admire in its indomitable spirit. Celebrating the horse and the horse culture means trying to dialogue with all the worlds it inhabits, from the pastures where it still works, to sport, therapy, in a word, to think and research in all its multidimensionality.
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Architecture and philosophy share a certain fragility and sensitivity in their direct encounter with
the world. Architecture benefits from the fact that it becomes stone and volume, it builds and
protects itself by merging with the world, while philosophy incarnates in the world by disappearing
into it, and ideas submerge into the normal course of life. Philosophy is always naked in a certain
sense, it is a vital transparency. In 2017, I began to think about how much I missed a more solid
bridge between the two disciplines. I humbly love the world of architecture, from the sketch in the
notebook to the construction and the struggle with the material. I love construction work just as
others only loved the cleanliness of the drawing board, or the hygiene of computer programs. I like
it all. From the smell of paper and pencils, to the smell of stone and cement, to fresh paint in a
room. And more than that, I love bridges. I write with a certain audacity in the first person because I
love truth and freedom above all. I had in mind to build a real bridge. I think I've partly achieved
that. At least a first platform, a base that allows for something more. A bridge has to start
somewhere, ideally from both sides at the same time. But we built all this together. Some from
Philosophy, others from Architecture. In 2024 we will conclude the last year of my leadership of
FILARCH in a very special way. In 2024 we are proposing not just the annual conference, but a
week-long celebration of FILARCH, with three symposia in anticipation of the annual conference,
which this year will be dedicated to Wittgenstein.
I hope you like this proposal and the challenge we've set for you. Thank you for everything. (Constantino Pereira Martins)
FILARCH is an academic international platform that aims to study and bridge Philosophy and Architecture. Created in
2019, it has become over these recent years a place of exchanging ideas, showing and sharing results and research,
making new friends and meeting new people in an open minded environment. The quality of this free academic
exchange is also translated into a publishing initiative that is growing and moving forward towards a rich horizon of
reflections from both fields of study. In order to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue, we encourage all the people
interested in Philosophy and Architecture to join us and share their ideas. All are welcome.
CFP General Overview
FILARCH Week 2024
18 November
Ruins
(online)
19 November
Architecture, Aesthetics and
Technology / Arquitectura,
Estética e Tecnologia
(online)
20 November
Landscapes of care
Paisagens do cuidado
(hybrid)
21 November
22 November
Wittgenstein and
Architecture
(in-person)
18-22 November, 2024
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Português/English
UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA
LISBON, PORTUGAL
Alexandre Meyer Luz (Presidente/Chair/Brasil)
Constantino Pereira Martins (Presidente/Chair/Portugal)
João Marcelo Saraiva (Secretário/Secretary)
An evolving discipline to guide systemic change
14th May 2024, 11h
Auditório Alberto Amaral
Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal
Organização: Luísa Ávila da Costa / Constantino Pereira Martins
Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto
Permanent Seminar on the Philosophy of Sport
Robotpolitics is the final follow-up conference that intends to close a threefold system, following the expansion of Cyberpolitics and Technopolitics, resuming to all the dimensions and effects of the technological revolution in our lives, but placing politics at the center of debate and thought.
If in our present there seems to be a diversity of doorways to enter this global shifting paradigm, that we are still trying to map and assess, it has become clear in the last years that we are heading towards a profound systemic and civilizational transformation, a point of no return. Starting from the premise of a philosophical and genealogical reconstruction of an ancient notion of the slave, at the heart of the problem of mediation-mechanization-automation, there always seems to have been the idea inscribed in fire in the faculty of the imagination that we can demultiply strength or intelligence into external, auxiliary or prosthetic forms, the messianic idea that work under the sun of days can be lighter, that we were ment for something higher. The ideas of repetition and exhaustion are obviously the most fearsome, not only because of their boredom and meaninglessness but also because of the smell of death and uselessness they carry.
The body as a central and multiplied problem, individual, collective, and general, as a system for organizing thought and world vision, is transmuted from flesh to hybrid, from metal to ethereal. Mechanization and social atomization, accelerated by the convergence of multiple parallel variables, seem to indicate to a point of convergence and final focus: the introduction and participation of robots in social, affective, and economic life on a global scale. Between liberalism and the control society, a profound, irreparable, and irrecoverable clash is anticipated from this point zero, which will transform the course of human history forever. On the razor's edge, political affections are divided between a liberating vision, which will finally take human existence to a level of searching for its essence, freed from mundane tasks, and another terrifying one, a cut with nature, unpredictable, a philosophical dream that sounds like a pandora's nightmare in which the human form becomes dispensable, if not obsolete. Inevitably, in the urgency of the little that has already opened up and is foreseeable, some are looking for a third way that seeks to guard with the necessary prudence against a step that could be bigger than its legs.
Another aspect of Robotpolitics concerns the possibility of transhumanism. For a long time now, man has been trying to escape the prisons that the body, as a biological entity, seems to constitute. Cyborgs, i.e. a middle ground between pure technology and pure flesh, are already visible on the horizon and can bridge the gap between artificial structures with advanced intelligence and man. Super-soldiers, but also super-academics could emerge from this exchange of naturophobic or technophilic solutions, in a kind of reinvented gnosis.
The digital revolution is undoubtedly a trendsetter within the current digital and political zeitgeist. That is because the latter revolution standardizes and automatizes consumer and citizen behavior. Indeed, the digital revolution shapes and impacts the sociopolitical and socioeconomic trends all over the World. Furthermore, the digital revolution poses several threats to capitalism as a dominant economic doctrine in the West. As a result, there is no agreement among economists on whether Western countries need more (or less) state intervention to preserve the basic rights of their citizens throughout the current digital revolution. Nevertheless, economists agree that more (or less) interventionism in economic policy would bear two possible diametrically opposite effects.
On the one hand, more state intervention would result in more spending on subsidies to sustain the demand of those households whose primary source of income is threatened by labor automation. For instance, the arguments for introducing a basic income policy have dramatically increased over the last few years. Though valuable in their purposes, those arguments often ignore the fact that introducing a basic income policy would have devastating effects on taxation policies. That is because of two primary reasons. Firstly, Western countries are more indebted than they were before. Hence, increasing spending would result in increased public debt. Secondly, and because of the first point, increasing spending would result in increased taxation in countries whose population is shrinking and aging faster than in developing countries.
On the other hand, the increased availability of cheap technology for production has also caused a dramatic rise in the arguments in favor of less state intervention. That is because the availability of cheap technology lowers the marginal cost of production. Accordingly, its large availability involves more opportunities for entrepreneurs, lower transaction costs, more choice of goods and services (i.e., more value-added for Western economies), and more demand for qualified workers. Accordingly—the argument goes—fewer state intervention involves paying out subsidies to requalify workers now and a decrease in overall spending when the entrepreneurs can provide more than the State can provide. In this way, overall taxation would also decrease over time.
These two problems pose two big philosophical questions that have been so far unanswered. Firstly, how will the digital revolution affect and reshape political and economic freedom in the West? Secondly, how will the digital revolution affect and reshape state intervention over the upcoming years? These issues do not concern only the domain of economics. Indeed, both issues concern many other academic disciplines: philosophy, sociology, and political science. Thus, we invite contributors from these fields to participate in this conference because we aim to provide exhaustive answers to these questions.
ROBOTPOLITICS 2024 provides an open academic setting which will certainly open a rich horizon for reflections from diverse fields of study. In order to promote a transdisciplinary dialogue, with contributions from the entire spectrum of academic knowledge, the submission of proposals, on the following topics are particularly encouraged:
1. Robotics
2. Philosophy of Technology and Science
3. Political economy, Macroeconomy
4. Transhumanism
5. Epistemology and History of science
6. Technognose
7. Artificial intelligence
8. Sex, love and robotics
9. Space exploration: new horizons
10. Genetics, biotechnology and care
11. Robot industry
12. Macro and political economy
13. Applied robotphilosophy: medicine, health, wars, governance, society, etc
14. Political theory and economic impact
15. History and myths
16. Authors and particular perspectives
17. Aesthetics, literature, arts, cinema, etc
Abstracts should be sent to constantinomar@gmail.com with a small biographical note and may be submitted in English or Portuguese.
Presentations will be 20 minutes in English or Portuguese, plus 10 min. Q&A.
The full and final texts will be published in e-book format in English and Portuguese.
Participation and attendance are free.
Ideally, the film could be a foundational historical document, from the Portuguese fighter who appears in one of the most famous action and fight films to comprehensive national coverage. But that would probably suit a TV series better than a documentary film. In fact, this is a period movie made by friends and with friends. It is this friendship that ultimately justifies the movie's will to exist. The actors are almost entirely from one of Lisbon's most paradigmatic neighborhoods. Apart from this initial and final justification, the film tries to show some of the most important fighters of this early era of Muay Thai in Portugal and the trainer who brought them together, either through some stories and adventures or essentially by sharing memories. And that seems to remain the essence of cinema: memory, or for future memory.
In this manner, the documentary aims to cover the 1990s up to the early years of the 21st century, allowing for an aesthetic and existential arch, which in technical terms coincides with different tonalities of image and recording techniques, which gives this film a unique identity and characteristics, as it simultaneously constitutes a unique testimony and archive of the history of sport in Portugal.
LINK: https://loja.editoradialetica.com/humanidades/do-cavalo-on-horses-del-caballo
Architecture and philosophy share a certain fragility and sensitivity in their direct encounter with
the world. Architecture benefits from the fact that it becomes stone and volume, it builds and
protects itself by merging with the world, while philosophy incarnates in the world by disappearing
into it, and ideas submerge into the normal course of life. Philosophy is always naked in a certain
sense, it is a vital transparency. In 2017, I began to think about how much I missed a more solid
bridge between the two disciplines. I humbly love the world of architecture, from the sketch in the
notebook to the construction and the struggle with the material. I love construction work just as
others only loved the cleanliness of the drawing board, or the hygiene of computer programs. I like
it all. From the smell of paper and pencils, to the smell of stone and cement, to fresh paint in a
room. And more than that, I love bridges. I write with a certain audacity in the first person because I
love truth and freedom above all. I had in mind to build a real bridge. I think I've partly achieved
that. At least a first platform, a base that allows for something more. A bridge has to start
somewhere, ideally from both sides at the same time. But we built all this together. Some from
Philosophy, others from Architecture. In 2024 we will conclude the last year of my leadership of
FILARCH in a very special way. In 2024 we are proposing not just the annual conference, but a
week-long celebration of FILARCH, with three symposia in anticipation of the annual conference,
which this year will be dedicated to Wittgenstein.
I hope you like this proposal and the challenge we've set for you. Thank you for everything. (Constantino Pereira Martins)
FILARCH is an academic international platform that aims to study and bridge Philosophy and Architecture. Created in
2019, it has become over these recent years a place of exchanging ideas, showing and sharing results and research,
making new friends and meeting new people in an open minded environment. The quality of this free academic
exchange is also translated into a publishing initiative that is growing and moving forward towards a rich horizon of
reflections from both fields of study. In order to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue, we encourage all the people
interested in Philosophy and Architecture to join us and share their ideas. All are welcome.
CFP General Overview
FILARCH Week 2024
18 November
Ruins
(online)
19 November
Architecture, Aesthetics and
Technology / Arquitectura,
Estética e Tecnologia
(online)
20 November
Landscapes of care
Paisagens do cuidado
(hybrid)
21 November
22 November
Wittgenstein and
Architecture
(in-person)
18-22 November, 2024
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Português/English
UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA
LISBON, PORTUGAL
Alexandre Meyer Luz (Presidente/Chair/Brasil)
Constantino Pereira Martins (Presidente/Chair/Portugal)
João Marcelo Saraiva (Secretário/Secretary)
An evolving discipline to guide systemic change
14th May 2024, 11h
Auditório Alberto Amaral
Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal
Organização: Luísa Ávila da Costa / Constantino Pereira Martins
Seminário Permanente de Filosofia do Desporto
Permanent Seminar on the Philosophy of Sport
Robotpolitics is the final follow-up conference that intends to close a threefold system, following the expansion of Cyberpolitics and Technopolitics, resuming to all the dimensions and effects of the technological revolution in our lives, but placing politics at the center of debate and thought.
If in our present there seems to be a diversity of doorways to enter this global shifting paradigm, that we are still trying to map and assess, it has become clear in the last years that we are heading towards a profound systemic and civilizational transformation, a point of no return. Starting from the premise of a philosophical and genealogical reconstruction of an ancient notion of the slave, at the heart of the problem of mediation-mechanization-automation, there always seems to have been the idea inscribed in fire in the faculty of the imagination that we can demultiply strength or intelligence into external, auxiliary or prosthetic forms, the messianic idea that work under the sun of days can be lighter, that we were ment for something higher. The ideas of repetition and exhaustion are obviously the most fearsome, not only because of their boredom and meaninglessness but also because of the smell of death and uselessness they carry.
The body as a central and multiplied problem, individual, collective, and general, as a system for organizing thought and world vision, is transmuted from flesh to hybrid, from metal to ethereal. Mechanization and social atomization, accelerated by the convergence of multiple parallel variables, seem to indicate to a point of convergence and final focus: the introduction and participation of robots in social, affective, and economic life on a global scale. Between liberalism and the control society, a profound, irreparable, and irrecoverable clash is anticipated from this point zero, which will transform the course of human history forever. On the razor's edge, political affections are divided between a liberating vision, which will finally take human existence to a level of searching for its essence, freed from mundane tasks, and another terrifying one, a cut with nature, unpredictable, a philosophical dream that sounds like a pandora's nightmare in which the human form becomes dispensable, if not obsolete. Inevitably, in the urgency of the little that has already opened up and is foreseeable, some are looking for a third way that seeks to guard with the necessary prudence against a step that could be bigger than its legs.
Another aspect of Robotpolitics concerns the possibility of transhumanism. For a long time now, man has been trying to escape the prisons that the body, as a biological entity, seems to constitute. Cyborgs, i.e. a middle ground between pure technology and pure flesh, are already visible on the horizon and can bridge the gap between artificial structures with advanced intelligence and man. Super-soldiers, but also super-academics could emerge from this exchange of naturophobic or technophilic solutions, in a kind of reinvented gnosis.
The digital revolution is undoubtedly a trendsetter within the current digital and political zeitgeist. That is because the latter revolution standardizes and automatizes consumer and citizen behavior. Indeed, the digital revolution shapes and impacts the sociopolitical and socioeconomic trends all over the World. Furthermore, the digital revolution poses several threats to capitalism as a dominant economic doctrine in the West. As a result, there is no agreement among economists on whether Western countries need more (or less) state intervention to preserve the basic rights of their citizens throughout the current digital revolution. Nevertheless, economists agree that more (or less) interventionism in economic policy would bear two possible diametrically opposite effects.
On the one hand, more state intervention would result in more spending on subsidies to sustain the demand of those households whose primary source of income is threatened by labor automation. For instance, the arguments for introducing a basic income policy have dramatically increased over the last few years. Though valuable in their purposes, those arguments often ignore the fact that introducing a basic income policy would have devastating effects on taxation policies. That is because of two primary reasons. Firstly, Western countries are more indebted than they were before. Hence, increasing spending would result in increased public debt. Secondly, and because of the first point, increasing spending would result in increased taxation in countries whose population is shrinking and aging faster than in developing countries.
On the other hand, the increased availability of cheap technology for production has also caused a dramatic rise in the arguments in favor of less state intervention. That is because the availability of cheap technology lowers the marginal cost of production. Accordingly, its large availability involves more opportunities for entrepreneurs, lower transaction costs, more choice of goods and services (i.e., more value-added for Western economies), and more demand for qualified workers. Accordingly—the argument goes—fewer state intervention involves paying out subsidies to requalify workers now and a decrease in overall spending when the entrepreneurs can provide more than the State can provide. In this way, overall taxation would also decrease over time.
These two problems pose two big philosophical questions that have been so far unanswered. Firstly, how will the digital revolution affect and reshape political and economic freedom in the West? Secondly, how will the digital revolution affect and reshape state intervention over the upcoming years? These issues do not concern only the domain of economics. Indeed, both issues concern many other academic disciplines: philosophy, sociology, and political science. Thus, we invite contributors from these fields to participate in this conference because we aim to provide exhaustive answers to these questions.
ROBOTPOLITICS 2024 provides an open academic setting which will certainly open a rich horizon for reflections from diverse fields of study. In order to promote a transdisciplinary dialogue, with contributions from the entire spectrum of academic knowledge, the submission of proposals, on the following topics are particularly encouraged:
1. Robotics
2. Philosophy of Technology and Science
3. Political economy, Macroeconomy
4. Transhumanism
5. Epistemology and History of science
6. Technognose
7. Artificial intelligence
8. Sex, love and robotics
9. Space exploration: new horizons
10. Genetics, biotechnology and care
11. Robot industry
12. Macro and political economy
13. Applied robotphilosophy: medicine, health, wars, governance, society, etc
14. Political theory and economic impact
15. History and myths
16. Authors and particular perspectives
17. Aesthetics, literature, arts, cinema, etc
Abstracts should be sent to constantinomar@gmail.com with a small biographical note and may be submitted in English or Portuguese.
Presentations will be 20 minutes in English or Portuguese, plus 10 min. Q&A.
The full and final texts will be published in e-book format in English and Portuguese.
Participation and attendance are free.
Ideally, the film could be a foundational historical document, from the Portuguese fighter who appears in one of the most famous action and fight films to comprehensive national coverage. But that would probably suit a TV series better than a documentary film. In fact, this is a period movie made by friends and with friends. It is this friendship that ultimately justifies the movie's will to exist. The actors are almost entirely from one of Lisbon's most paradigmatic neighborhoods. Apart from this initial and final justification, the film tries to show some of the most important fighters of this early era of Muay Thai in Portugal and the trainer who brought them together, either through some stories and adventures or essentially by sharing memories. And that seems to remain the essence of cinema: memory, or for future memory.
In this manner, the documentary aims to cover the 1990s up to the early years of the 21st century, allowing for an aesthetic and existential arch, which in technical terms coincides with different tonalities of image and recording techniques, which gives this film a unique identity and characteristics, as it simultaneously constitutes a unique testimony and archive of the history of sport in Portugal.
LINK: https://loja.editoradialetica.com/humanidades/do-cavalo-on-horses-del-caballo