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Free Download Jonathon Grasse, "Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges’s The Corner Club "
English | ISBN: 1501346830 | 2020 | 176 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In 1972, a group of creative Brazilian musicians and poets informally led by singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento recorded a landmark double-LP titled Clube da Esquina (Corner Club). The album saw highly original songs by Milton, already an award-winning international star, sharing vinyl with those of Lô Borges, an unknown eighteen-year-old from Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais. There, where the street "corner" still exists, grew their collective also known as the Corner Club, as the artists collaborated on many subsequent albums boasting innovative blends of pop, jazz, rock, folk, classical influences, and, before Brazil’s return to civilian rule in 1985, poignant protest songs aimed at a cruel dictatorship.

Free Download Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, "Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0838757154, 1611483107 | PDF | pages: 224 | 1.5 mb
Cy-Borges-this compound word seems almost destined. It allows the associations of cyber-and cyborg to converge around the name of Jorge Luis Borges, many of whose writings are strangely prescient thought-experiments in the impossible and the unconfigurable. For though Borges speaks scantily of technology and hardly at all of the cyber-cultural futures that make it possible, his speculative fictions and other prose writings contrive glimpses of posthuman conditions that are more typically associated with writers like William Gibson and Philip K. Dick or films like Blade Runner and The Matrix. Yet the posthuman, as that which reconfigures the actual and the possible once technology re-engineers human potential and institutes a new physics, is everywhere in Borges. As this collection shows through a series of close readings of his work, Borges is therefore the precursor whom posthumanism would have had to invent had he not existed.

Free Download Rethinking Philosophy With Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato (Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought) by Hugo Moreno
English | February 16, 2022 | ISBN: 1793639280 | True EPUB/PDF | 240 pages | 1/20.2 MB
In Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato, Hugo Moreno argues that in Ficciones, Claros del bosque, and El mono gramático, Jorge Luis Borges, María Zambrano, and Octavio Paz practice a literary way of philosophizing-a way of seeking and communicating knowledge of reality that takes up analogical procedures. They deploy analogy as an indispensable and irreplaceable heuristic tool and literary device to convey their insight and perplexities on the nature of existence. Borges’ ironic approach involves reading and writing philosophy as fiction. Zambrano’s poetic reason is a mode of writing and thinking based on an imaginative sort of recollection that is ultimately a visionary’s poetizing technique. Paz’s poetic thinking relies on analogy to correlate and harmonize an array of worldviews, ideas, and discourses.

Free Download Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Audiobook)
English | August 22, 2023 | ASIN: B0BZJX4VQT | M4B@64 kbps | 27h 25m | 747 MB
Author: Jorge Luis Borges | Narrator: Castulo Guerra | Translator: Andrew Hurley
"An event, and cause for celebration." -The New York Times
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called "the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century" collected in a single volume

Free Download The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPF5PL8B | 2023 | 10 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: William Egginton
Narrator: David Glass
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe-the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind-and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world. Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth-that love is necessarily imbued with loss, that the one doesn’t exist without the other. German physicist Werner Heisenberg was fighting with the scientific establishment on the meaning of the quantum realm’s absurdity when he had his own epiphany-that there is no such thing as a complete, perfect description of reality. Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant pushed the assumptions of human reason to their mind-bending conclusions, but emerged with an idea that crowned a towering philosophical system-that the human mind has fundamental limits, and those limits undergird both our greatest achievements as well as our missteps.