The gain-loss theory

“One of the possible implications of the gain-loss theory is that, in the words of the well-known ballad, “You always hurt the one you love”. That is, once we have grown certain of the rewarding behaviour of a person, that person may become less potent as a source of reward than a stranger. We have [...]

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Dear stranger

Maybe we torment our proximal others because we mistake refusal for denial, resistance for rebellion, reaching out for anarchy. Maybe we’re already too used to living in an atomized world which doesn’t tolerate complexity any more than it is able to have access to simplicity. We don’t understand any language because we have taken life [...]

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Gone fishing

Does it bite? Come on, be a gent, if you knew a better spot, you’d tell me, wouldn’t you?  Just please, don’t kill me with “le fait divers”. I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow and I know I’ll leave a small one behind! Why would I bother listening to your details?! Who [...]

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Stale comfort

Small, pretty things are said
From friend to friend
Just warm enough
To put to sleep an innocent
Not to revive a decadent.

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The beauty of life is always somewhere in between…

Between a woman’s legs and lips,
between her silky, curvy hips,
between the breaths she quickly takes,
between the tender moves she makes.
But also beauty one may find
in all the pleasures of the mind;
particularly those one gets
by often taking lengthy breaks
from their fuzzy stream of thought
into the reason’s hottest [...]

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My Villain Visigoth

I’ve got a villain Visigoth
Who has this vile habit
Of violently vandalizing
Various villages
Looking for virtuous virgins.

In his vertiginous
Ventures
He is vicariously
Vitrified by the villagers’ vernacular
Virulence against his voracity,
Which vividly lives in his victims’ memory.

My Visigoth is all I’ve got
He was given to me
By a pagan God
Through a vision I got
When I was visiting [...]

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A man of present intention

I dislike “in betweens”,
But I cherish beginnings.
I don’t wait for ends
And I don’t look for meanings.

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Strategies for cultural capital appropriation

Strategies for cultural capital appropriation

If the individual perceives that the borders between the dominated class – to which he belongs – and the dominating class – were he wishes to accede – are relatively permeable through appropriation of cultural capital as the main way to operate the transgression, than he’ll have the tendency [...]

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Some ideas on Power

Bourdieu – The Forms of capital“Cultural capital can exist in three forms: in the embodied state, i.e. , in the form of long-lasting dispositions of the mind and body; in the objectified state, in the form of cultural goods (pictures, books, dictionaries, instruments, machines, etc.), which are the trace or realization of theories or critiques [...]

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