Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta Boeken

For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve. More than one billion people worldwide have no access to clean water. The Rule of Law is gradually disintegrating all over the world. More than three million kids under the age of five years die every year due to environmental factors like pollution. Only in 2010 about ten million tons of plastic were thrown to the seas; virtually all fish, many of the vegetables we eat and literally all the beaches in the world have microplastics, which we ingest and that become part of our bodies. Only the Great Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean was almost equivalent to the size of Mexico. Look at the map and see what that means. Everything indicates that we are in a suicidal race to the 6th Extinction. People are absorbed in robotic and cyber systems. Hyper consumption and continuous entertainment. Politicians thinking the world as if they were in the 19th century. Why? All this constitutes the subject of this book. The Grasshopper Man and the Metamorphosis of the Electronic Society.

Art and Zen is a book by the architect, musician, philosopher and intermedia artist Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. A reflection about what art is and its deep implications in life, the book was written in the Italian mountains of Abruzzo. Emanuel Pimenta has been involved with Zen since many years. He studied Zen aesthetics with the composer Hans Joachim Koellreutter, who lived in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. He also collaborated with John Cage along his last seven years of life. The book reveals the influence of Daisetz Suzuki, master of John Cage, but also of other personalities, like Mr. Chico, a shaman who lived in the Brazilian forests and was one of Pimenta's masters.