(Photo: Taraneh Mosadegh)

Alba Londres is launching an issue of its magazine dedicated to explore contemporary Brazilian feminist poetics, in association with Carnaval Press. Brazilian poets Adelaide Ivánova, Adriana Zapparoli, Carla Diacov, Érica Zingano, Flávia Rocha, Jussara Salazar and Virna Teixeira are published in translation in the habitual bilingual amazing edition of the magazine co-edited by Jèssica Pujol and Virna Teixeira. We also invited two Brazilian writers, Cristina Judar and Assionara Souza, who contributed with short stories for this issue.

Latin America has a very high prevalence of gender violence, with Brazil occupying recently the fifth position in the world ranking of female murders. This special edition aims to reflect on this alarming violence against women in Brazil, and on how Brazilian women poets reflect about the theme in their writing.

Alba Londres is a magazine that publishes experimental Spanish, Portuguese and British poetry in translation since 2011 and this is its eight issue. Carnaval Press was created in London in 2015, and is the first small press dedicated to publish and present Brazilian contemporary poetry and lusophone poetry in translation to the British readers.

We would like to invite you to the launch, which will take place at the Brazilian Embassy on the 9th of March 2017, with readers:

Adelaide Ivánova and Virna Teixeira

…and their translators: Annie McDermott, Lotto Thiessen, Jèssica Pujol and Francisco Vilhena

RSVP essential  (culturalbrazil.rsvp@gmail.com)

Brazilian Embassy – Gallery 32. 14-16 Cockspur Street, London, SW1Y 5BL. Phone: 020 77474500

Poetry in translation (French, Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish, and more) at serie alpha

To celebrate the opening of the Museum of Futures Visual Poetry Exhibition, a ‘Camarade’ collaborative poetry reading was held with 24 poets associated with the exhibition reading new work written for the night in 12 pairs. The event was held on February 23rd 2017 in Surbiton, UK. http://www.theenemiesproject.com/futures

Reading at the Museum of Futures with Albert Pellicer:

Friday March 17 2017, 9.30-4.30. Advance notice for this workshop, which is sponsored by the generous support of the Wellcome Trust. Speakers: Dylan Trigg (UCD), The phenomenology of anxiety Ulrika Maude (Bristol), DH Lawrence and the body Michael Lewis (Newcastle), Breath in the history of philosophy Petr Kouba (Prague), On Nancy’s ‘The Intruder’ Emiliano Trizio (UWE), […]

via Workshop: Phenomenology, anxiety and breath — Mental health, Ethics and Law at King’s

Jo Spence (1934–92) challenged the way in which women were represented, and was a pioneering on the application of photography as a therapeutic tool. Drawing on her personal experiences with breast cancer and the use of performance, she commented on broader political issues. Her work is being exhibited at Tate Britain together with her collaboration with the socialist-feminist collective Hackney Flashers.

Where: Tate Britain. Main hall. Free entrance. Until Autumn 2016.

21st – 28th September, 2016.

Institute of Philosophy, Room 349, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Keynote speakers include: Professor Monika Betzler, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich Professor Kristján Kristjánsson, University of Birmingham Professor Denis McManus, University of Southampton Dr Carolyn Price, The Open University Professor Fabrice Teroni, University of Geneva Dr Jonathan Webber, University of Cardiff […]

via Conference: Owning Our Emotions — Emotion, Authenticity and the Self — Mental health, Ethics and Law at King’s

All are invited to the John Toulmin Lecture in Law and Psychiatry which will take place on Wednesday 23 March 2016, 18.30 – 17.30, Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s Colleg…

Source: John Toulmin Lecture: The Unexamined Life – Insight and the Law

Source: Podcast: The Nature of Memory – Perspectives from Art, History and Neuroscience

We do not know how to renounce anything, Freud has once observed. This type of relation to the object indicates an inability to mourn.

The addict is a non-renouncer par excellence (one think of the way Goethe mastered renunciation) ; yet, however haunted or hounded, the addict nonetheless establishes a partial separation from an invading presence.

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Discipline and addiction. Practice your scales. Repetitions. Bach on coffee. Berlioz on hallucinogen (but also on coffee and cigars): The Witches’ Sabbath, a concoction of Faust and the opium dreams Berlioz read in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Mussorgky’s wine, Stravinsky’s cigarettes.

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Crisis in immanence. Drugs, it turn out, are not so much about seeking an exterior, transcendental dimension – a fourth or fifth dimension – rather, they explore fractal interiorities. This was already hinted at by Burrough’s algebra of need.

Avital Ronell

(Crack War. Literature Addiction Mania. University of Illinois Press, 2004)