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No final da década de 2000, com a iminência da construção de mais um trecho do Rodoanel Mário Covas, seu trecho Norte, viabilizado por recursos provenientes do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento – PAC para o transporte, a questão dos fundos de consumo, isto é, dos espaços periurbanos da metrópole paulista, ganhou importância para os agentes do capital atuantes no espaço urbano. Em 2007, foram realizadas entrevistas com a Defesa Civil da sub-prefeitura Brasilândia-Freguesia do Ó e com o sub-prefeito de Jacanã- Tremembé. Também foram realizados trabalhos de campo, nesse mesmo ano, em áreas dessas referidas sub-prefeituras e também na região da “Cratera” e “Colônia”, na zona sul de São Paulo, região conhecida como Parelheiros. Esses campos e entrevistas foram realizados com o objetivo de se observar a questão da urbanização periurbana da Metrópole de São Paulo e sua relação com áreas legalmente protegidas. O texto a seguir é composto de informações extraídas dessas fontes secundárias reforçadas por dados oficiais e estruturado a partir de determinados referenciais teóricos da geografia crítica contemporânea.

Ethereal Phenomena" is an illustration based on Tibetan thangka art that reacts to the breath.Breathing is the only visceral function of the body that we are able to control. It reflects and influences all aspects of our perception and emotion. It is physiological, psychological, and a conditioned behaviour.Breathing links our inner and outer experiences. As an essential element of meditation, it is also crucial for the transformation of consciousness beyond the boundaries of self-identity.Tibetan thangka paintings are meditative practices as well. Their layered structure and spatialization depict the metaphysical cosmos. Contemplating these images is meant to bring an experience of liberation."Ethereal Phenomena" integrates both ways of meditation by connecting the breath to the motion of the image, creating a circular process in which the body is mirrored and influenced by the visual field. The sense of self is expanded into the work and vice versa.The music and mantra-like chant set an immersive atmosphere. Thangka paintings are representations of sound."Returning to the breath" is the main technique in meditation; to keep the focus on breathing and if lost in thoughts simply go back to the breath.It is possible to consider two main types of breath. Slower and deeper abdominal breathing is more calming, efficient, and possesses cumulative health effects and accelerated, shallow thoracic breathing produces and indicates unease and anxiety.

Abstract:The word capoeira is a vernacular phrase in Tupi Brazilian Portuguese. Kaá-uêra, carries the notion of "forest which is not the same as it was". This sentence shows the elegant interpretation of data on the indigenous tradition of the landscape. Today, capoeira term is widely used in scientific discourse, near your namesake of the Western tradition: secondary forest. We intend to develop here the question of why there is a strange difference between the intellectual direction of the secondary forest and capoeira? This oddity is the fact the word capoeira has a lexical-semantic field that includes not only the vegetation related training, as well as homologous and complementary range of phenomena of the environment, fauna and flora. Something similar does not happen with the term secondary forest. To try to understand why this observation, we assume that the first term is the result of a totalizing thought, continuing a tradition handed down from the ancient past, while the second term is the heir to a recent split: the fragmentation of Hellenistic thought. In the West, this fragmentation has a symbolic moment: the trial of Socrates. Armed with studies of Hannah Arendt, we see elements of this fragmentation of the "separation between the philosopher and the life in the city [which] means the separation between thought and action" (WAGNER 2002), which resulted in the separation "between thought and [...] between a philosopher and political reality" (WAGNER 2002). The result of this split was the largest facility in the Western tradition, the dichotomy between the vita activa and vita contemplativa who officiated at the same split between thought and action. We believe this is the intellectual heart of the distinction between the term secondary forest and capoeira, the dual languages produced by the subsequent division of the absolute and relative space and nature and society, an issue noted by SMITH (1988).