Without Abstract; Sin Resumen; Sem Resumo
This chapter firstly describes target behaviours for chronic diseases, chosen based on their prevalence and potential for self-management: type 2 diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, heart failure, obesity, asthma and ischaemic heart disease. High-level target behaviours (e.g. diet, physical activity, medication adherence, smoking cessation, symptom monitoring and management) are prese...
Operation: Orfeo and Amduat: An Oxygen Machine, the two productions by the Danish Company Hotel Pro Forma that we have chosen to see, allow us to establish, in different ways, correspondence sections that attribute to re al death a path that is always announced in life and to its final blow. At the same time, we are offered a one way ticket, which does not prevent us from walking a non return path – the one of ...
“Falling from our wall” invokes a collective denomination of an object that serves everyone, basically the female figures in the play and us. It appears as an object that gains affection from them because it affects them, with which they care, of which they use beyond measure to reach an end, which they reject when they don’t understand it. But The Wall also invokes the shattering of women, of any woman who see...
The most recent presentation (2017) in Lisbon of Sasha Waltz & Guests with the choreography Kreatur recovers the social and political horizon of previous works. It happens through a deep understanding of what we are as species – something we seem always to forget and distort, due to not considering our inner affinities. We lack the patience and wisdom to bring the art of the potter to the art of the dancer ...
The present essay deals with the rhizomatic relations that underlie the dramatic writing of Elfriede Jelinek in the 2004 work Der Tod und das Mädchen (The Death and the Maiden), and how these links weave a larger discourse on the question‑ ing that life recreates against death. In this context, some of her themes of elec‑ tion will be revisited, for example, the permanent political commitment, under which publi...
We know that the relationship between body and brain is established by neurons and their extensions: axons and dendrites. We also know that the complexity of our behaviour is due to this main system of the mind’s functioning. The possibility of looking at the relationship between the structure of the brain and that of the mind and the rest of the body has not always been taken for granted. “Neurons refer to the...
Will there be in the work of Büchner such a character that so well corresponds to the conceptual structure where human imperfectibility establishes connection with a feeling of irreducible strangeness, here associated with the idea of Nature-God, as Woyzeck? What affects us concerning this character? Indeed what matters is the direct effect of the presence of nature as a misfit in the human domain, while we per...
Quasiconferência crepuscular sobre Quarteto de Heiner Müller
Artigo sobre o espectáculo Quarteto, de Heiner Muller, apresentado no âmbito do projecto TETRAEDRO.