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The
Aesthetics of Decay
(New
York: Peter Lang, 2006)
Dylan Trigg
confronts the
remnants
from the
fallout
of post-industrialism
and postmodernism. Through a considered analysis of memory, place, and
nostalgia, Trigg argues that the decline of reason enables a critique of
progress to emerge. In this ambitious work, Trigg aims to reassess the
direction of progress by situating it in a spatial context. In doing so,
he applies his critique of rationality to modern ruins. The
derelict
factory, abandoned
asylum, and urban
alleyway
all become allies in Trigg's attack on a fixed image of temporality and
progress. The Aesthetics of Decay offers a model of post-rational
aesthetics in which spatial order is challenged by an affirmative ethics of ruin.
Vocabulary
remnants: vestigio del pasado / fallout: caída/ derelict:
en ruinas / alleyway: travesía, callejón/
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A joke
The Aldi
Doctor...
One day,
in line at the company cafeteria, Joe says to Mike, "My elbow hurts like
hell. I guess I'd better see a doctor."
"Listen,
you don't have to spend that kind of money," Mike replies.
"There's
a diagnostic computer down at Aldi's. Just give it a urine sample and
the computer will tell you what's wrong and what to do about It.
It takes
ten seconds and costs ten dollars. A lot cheaper than a doctor."
So, Joe
deposits a urine sample in a small jar and takes it to Aldi's.
He
deposits ten dollars and the computer lights up and asks for the urine
sample. He pours the sample into the slot and waits.
Ten
seconds later, the computer ejects a printout:
"You have
tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water and avoid heavy activity. It
will improve in two weeks. Thank you for shopping at Aldi's."
That
evening, while thinking how amazing this new technology was, Joe began
wondering if the computer could be fooled.
He mixed
some tap water, a stool sample from his dog, urine samples from his wife
and daughter, and a sperm sample from himself for good measure.
Joe
hurries back to Aldi's, eager to check the results. He deposits ten
dollars, pours in his concoction, and awaits the results.
The
computer prints the following:
1. Your
tap water is too hard. Get a water softener.
2. Your
dog has ringworm. Bathe him with anti-fungal shampoo.
3. Your
daughter has a cocaine habit. Get her into rehab.
4. Your
wife is pregnant. Twins. They aren't yours. Get a lawyer.
5. If you
don't stop playing with yourself, your elbow will never get better.
VOCABULARY:
Concoction: Menjunje /
ringworm: tiña
ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia,
is a landlocked country located in the Horn
of Africa.
It is bordered by Eritrea to
the north, Djibouti and Somalia to
the east, Sudan andSouth
Sudan to
the west, and Kenya to
the south. Ethiopia is the second most populous nation on the continent,
with over 84,320,000 inhabitants, and the tenth largest by area,
occupying 1,100,000 km2.
With its capital at Addis
Ababa,
it is also the most populouslandlocked
nation in
the world. Ethiopia is one of the oldest sites of human existence known
to scientists.[5] It
may be the region from which Homo
sapiens first
set out for the Middle
East.
Despite being the major source of the Nile
river,
Ethiopia underwent a series of famines in the 1980s, exacerbated by
adverse geopolitics and civil wars. The country has begun to recover,
and it now has one of the biggest economies by GDP in East Africa and
Central Africa.
THE
HAPPY SINGERS
The Happy Singers” are a group of popular singers. At
present they are visiting all parts of the country. They will be
arriving here tomorrow. They will be coming by train and many people
will be waiting for them at the station. They will be staying for five
days. As usual the police will have a difficult time trying to keep
order. They will go back to London next week
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ARGENTINA´S BAD HABITS
Roughly 200 years ago, two countries in the Americas
declared their independence from their colonial masters. Both had
abundant land, natural resources, good ports, a temperate climate -
seemingly all the makings of a great nation.
Two centuries later, the United States was the richest
country in the history of the world, while Argentina was setting records
with the three largest defaults in history - roughly $100 billion to its
foreign creditors, and billions more to the World Bank and the IMF. Its
banking system in ruins, its economy devastated, its credit rating
destroyed, the government was fighting to keep the poverty rate below
50%.
Neither bad luck nor destiny drove Argentina from crisis
to crisis; bad government did. Commodity wealth made Argentina one of
the richest countries in the world until well into the 20th century.
Summary
Although the origins of the crisis were to be found in poor economic
policy decisions that led to a chaotic devaluation, its dramatic
denouement in December 2001 and subsequent development over the course
of 2002 were deeply conditioned by political factors. The Argentine
crisis was and remains a crisis of governance in the most profound sense.
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