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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World

By Eduardo Galeano , Mark Fried , Jose Guadalupe Posada

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2001
ISBN
0312420315, 9780312420314
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7545838 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
358\0
Time added
2014-05-13 17:29:58

Description

In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"—with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of the "The Right to Rave"—he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a "reality" we should reject, he writes, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark. In the North, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by things we own; the South is the galley slave enabling our greed.

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