Sobre o romance Guayrá

Mapeamento Participativo de Opiniões sobre o Uso de Dinheiro Público

Recent surveys show dissatisfaction of the population with politicians and their representatives. This paper describes a technological tool developed to provide a communication channel between citizens and policy makers. This tool allows to make reports like the lack of investment and waste of public resources, and highlight initiatives which has society approval. The reports will be georeferen...

Romance is so complex

In this paper I want to look at what the evidence from Complex Predicates can tell us about the design parameters of an empirically adequate theory of Universal Grammar (UG). This is a fertile field for investigation because, according to the standard assumptions of the field, complex predicates are monoclausal with respect to some properties and multiclausal with respect to others and this ten...

“Three Kingdoms” to Romance

The Romance of Tuberculosis

Superconsumer, a postmodern romance

“Postmodernism” is a key word today, wielded by philosophers, cultural theorists, artists, people in the media, and intellectuals in general. When most people talk about postmodernism, they envisage the revolutionary imagery of our life and times— information revolution, hyperglobalisation, and consumerist culture—and they herewith feel the risks, anxieties, and ills associated with life in the...