This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Rosinka Chaudhuri, the author of ‘The Literary Thing: History, poetry and the making of a modern cultural sphere’, to discuss Rabindranath Tagore, who, in 1913, became the first non-white and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature – since which he has been largely overlooked; Kate Kennedy, the author of ‘Dweller in the Shadows’, a new Life of the war poet Ivor Gurney, considers the “peculiarly direct, urgent intensity” of the later work, composed while confined in an asylum; plus, let’s hear it for independent bookshops
'Rabindranath Tagore' by Bashabi Fraser
'The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore', edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri
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Producer: Ben Mitchell
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Um episódio em dois atos.
No primeiro ato, um mergulho em histórias de pessoas que desaparecem nas grandes metrópoles. São muitas. Só em São Paulo, a polícia registra, em média, 20 casos de pessoas desaparecidas todos os dias. Felizmente, muitas acabam reencontradas.
E isso se deve, em boa medida, ao trabalho de um homem: Darko Hunter, responsável pela Divisão de Localização Familiar e Desaparecidos da Secretaria Municipal de Direitos Humanos e Cidadania.
No segundo ato, um mergulho em histórias de pessoas que arriscam tudo para aparecer por meio da pichação. E especialmente um mergulho em uma história, do pichador que ousou desafiar o mundo das artes plásticas.
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– Colabore com a Rádio Escafandro e receba recompensas.
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– Entrevistados do episódio
Responsável pela Divisão de Localização Familiar e Desaparecidos da Secretaria Municipal de Direitos Humanos e Cidadania, da Prefeitura de São Paulo.
Luciano Pereira
Empresário.
Alcirene Campos
Cabelereira
Pichador, artista e ativista.
– Ficha técnica:
Concepção, produção, roteiro, apresentação, sonorização e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama
Mixagem: Vitor Coroa
Trilha incidental: Blue Dots e Paulo Gama
Last week I spent a little time putting Blockbase to the test. I had some explorations into warping text and images using CSS and SVG filters gathering dust, and I thought it would be fun to explore pulling those into a highly-opinionated block theme.
In the past when I’ve done a theme experiment like this, I’ve generally started with something like the emptytheme generator in the WordPress theme-experiments repository. This provides you with just the required files for building a block theme, so it’s a good minimal way to get started.
This time around, I used Blockbase. While it doesn’t yet include a quick generator script like emptytheme does, there is one in the works. In lieu of that, I just created a child theme like I normally would: by adding style.css, functions.php, and index.php files. I also copied over the child-theme.json file from the in-progress Quadrat theme, since I knew that would get me started.
My work in child-theme.json was very brief — I just changed a few variables and used Blockbase’s compiler script once. Then I copied and pasted over the block style effects from the plugin mentioned above.
Once that was all in place, I jumped into custom templating. I created just two templates, plus a custom header that featured a video loop of me waving at the camera (but filtered into oblivion using the tools at photomosh.com). I used a “Warped and Stretched Photocopy” block style on the header’s text, and “Photocopy” style on the featured images. Combined together, this created a highly stylized look and feel, reminiscent of (for better or for worse) the old days of Flash animations:
This all worked pretty well in the editor too! Due to a combination of Gutenberg limitations and browser bugs, I ran into an issue getting my SVG filters loaded into the Site Editor’s iFrame, but aside from that, things looked just like the frontend:
The filters did work great in the post editor though, so I can show you how that’s supposed to work by loading the header there:
In the end, the filters bug is not really a fault of the theme, and something I’m sure I could resolve if I choose to devote some more time to this exploration.
The theme is obviously a little over-the-top, but that was really the point of the experiment! I’m amazed I was able to fold my earlier block styles work into such a distinctive, full-featured theme with minimal effort.
Overall, I found that the benefit to using Blockbase was peace of mind. Compared to starting fresh or using emptytheme, Blockbase ensured that I had a fully-functional block theme immediately. It already contained extra templates for pages like 404 and search, and it was full of little CSS fixes for things that full-site editing just doesn’t quite support yet.
This eliminated a lot of extra busywork, and allowed me to dive right in and focus on the theme-building aspect that’s most exciting for me: the theme’s design and creativity.
The code for the theme is over here in case anyone would like to poke around:
https://github.com/Automattic/themes/tree/try/glitchy-theme-experiment/glitchy
I look forward to seeing Blockbase spark the creation of many more themes!
Uma conversa de Paula Carvalho com o escritor Ailton Krenak sobre cultura e literatura indígena, escrita e tradição oral, meio ambiente, capitalismo e os ataques do governo brasileiro aos povos indígenas do país.
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Michael Caines are joined by the critic and literary scholar Marjorie Perloff to discuss an encyclopedic work that sets out to tackle ‘Art and thought in the Cold War’, from Jean-Paul Sartre to Elvis Presley; the English professor and literary critic Rohan Maitzen explores the meticulously observed world of Olivia Manning’s Balkan novels; plus, the unhappy story of a youthful romance between Eric Arthur Blair and Jacintha Buddicom, played out in poetry
‘The Free World: Art and thought in the Cold War’ by Louis Menand
‘The Balkan Trilogy’ by Olivia Manning
‘“Dracula’s Daughter”: The rediscovery of a love poem for George Orwell’, by Eileen M. Hunt, and ‘Annotating George Orwell’, by D. J. Taylor – both in this week’s TLS: the-tls.co.uk
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Phase 2 of Gutenberg introduces Full Site Editing to WordPress; to make this possible, we need a new way of building themes – using blocks.
Block themes use templates made entirely of blocks. The layout is configured using a combination of theme.json and CSS. The settings in theme.json are used to generate CSS – this is part of the Global Styles feature. The theme CSS is added after the theme.json CSS and together these rules define the layout for a theme. If you’re just getting started with block themes, this guide should help.
Global Style allows us to set styles for some aspects of the theme, but many common customisations are not yet available. We are actively helping to add more customisations to Global Styles, but in the meantime we have been working on a mechanism to define a lot more theme styles in a custom section of theme.json, until they are available in Global Styles.
The result of this work is a new theme called Blockbase, loosely based on the classic theme Blank Canvas. This block theme attempts to make all the common theme styles configurable in theme.json, and provides the CSS needed to make them work until the blocks themselves support these settings. As more of these configurations are added to Global Styles, we will remove the corresponding CSS from Blockbase.
We are currently using Blockbase as a parent theme for all of our block themes; in time we hope that it won’t be needed. This means that child themes only need to define their settings in a theme.json file, and the parent theme CSS will adjust to these settings. This approach gives us an agreed standard when configuring block styles. It also will make it trivial to move to the Global Styles implementation when that becomes available in core.
Blockbase is intended to be a representation of all the theme style settings that we believe should eventually live in Global Styles and be configurable by users. Some themes need customizations beyond what would be possible with Global Styles. These more unique styles continue to be defined in the theme CSS file.
Style configurations live in the “styles” section of theme.json. Rules can be defined for both “blocks” and “elements”, and these will be interpreted by Global Styles and generate the appropriate CSS.
The theme.json file also contains a section for “custom” configurations, inside the “settings” property. Settings defined in “custom” are output by Global Styles as CSS variables. These variables are used by the theme CSS files to style blocks and other elements.
Child themes of Blockbase are able to redefine these CSS variables by setting different values in its theme.json. The child theme inherits the Blockbase CSS, but with the new CSS variables defined in theme.json.
To avoid a child theme needing to redefine every value in the theme.json file, child themes can create a child-theme.json file and a script will generate a theme.json file, taking the defaults from Blockbase and updating it with the new values from the child theme.
This mechanism will be particularly useful as more customizations are added to Global Styles; in many cases it will only be necessary to update Blockbase itself and rebuild each child theme, to update the theme.json files. You can find out more about this in the theme’s readme file.
Aside from the benefits outlined above, we have also found that this approach to building themes has resulted in a drastic reduction in the amount of code we need to write for both the parent theme and any child themes. As much as possible we rely on the styles that come with Gutenberg, and only add extra rules where necessary. Blockbase CSS is, at the time of writing about 1000 lines of code, whereas Seedlet CSS is over 4000.
As more of these customizations are added to Global Styles, we will be able to remove the corresponding CSS from Blockbase, so we anticipate the size of the theme CSS to reduce over time.
Blockbase is available on the Automattic themes repo. If there is interest from others in using this approach to build themes we can investigate making it available as an npm package for others to use.
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Gerri Kimber to discuss a bold new biography of D. H. Lawrence, 'the most judged writer of his age'; twenty-odd writers share their formative encounters with nature, including the novelists Maaza Mengiste and Ali Smith; plus, reviews of the television adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s 'The Pursuit of Love' and 'Harm', a new play about loneliness and social media addiction
Burning Man: The ascent of D. H. Lawrence, by Frances Wilson
'Sinister, sublime, exhausting, hungry – formative encounters with the natural world', see the-tls.co.uk
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, BBC iPlayer
'Harm' by Phoebe Eclair-Powell, the Bush Theatre, London
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Cientistas de várias partes do mundo têm descoberto que psicodélicos como ayahuasca, LSD, psilocibina, MDMA e ibogaína podem auxiliar no tratamento de vários tipos de doenças mentais.
No Brasil, o Instituto do Cérebro da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte efetuou um estudo pioneiro sobre o uso da ayahuasca.
Foi o primeiro estudo randomizado, duplo cego, para avaliar o impacto de um psicodélico no combate à depressão.
A bebida, utilizada na religião do Santo Daime e em vários outros cultos, mostrou resultados promissores. E o melhor: em pessoas resistentes a terapias com antidepressivos tradicionais.
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– Colabore com a Rádio Escafandro e receba recompensas.
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– Mergulhe mais fundo
Pisconautas – Viagens com a ciência psicodélica brasileira (LINK PARA COMPRA)
– Entrevistados do episódio
Escritor e jornalista especializado em ciência e meio-ambiente. Colunista do Jornal Folha de S.Paulo e autor do recém-lançando Psiconautas – Viagens com a ciência psicodélica brasileira (Fósforo, 2021).
Jornalista, historiador, autor de História Social do LSD no Brasil (Elefante, 2020)
Físico, doutor em física aplicada à medicina e biologia pela Universidade de São Paulo de Ribeirão Preto, onde também obteve o título de livre docência e foi professor até 2009. Professor do Instituto do Cérebro da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Atua na área de Neurociências, com ênfase na utilização da imagem funcional por ressonância magnética e eletrocenfalografia na avaliação das bases neurais dos estados alterados de consciência induzidos pelo psicodélico ayahuasca.
Pedagoga, mosaicista e psicóloga especialista no tratamento de pessoas com dependência química.
– Ficha técnica:
Concepção, produção, roteiro, apresentação, sonorização e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama
Mixagem: Vitor Coroa
Trilha incidental: Blue Dots
Advogada criminalista, comentarista política e apresentadora, Gabriela Prioli é uma das grandes difusoras de informação política de qualidade no país. Polarização, discurso de ódio, controle de armas, política de drogas, saúde mental e, claro, engajamento cívico estão entre os temas da conversa com Ilona Szabó para o último episódio desta temporada de Você Pode Mudar o Mundo.
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