Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. "Language is never neutral."
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire's education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the "banking method" of education, wherein a teacher "deposits" knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or "bank". Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
"Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination."
Paulo Freire
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Have all hexbears touched a music recording, i.e., a CD, cassette or record? I realized that people who never have are going to be an increasing segment of the population and wondered if any of us are in it.
I'm broke but I have a ton of records and CDs, and a few cassettes. Mostly I record bandcamp albums onto tape.
One of the things that really kills me is, the younger generations have taken to calling all discs "CDs". The Xbox 360 ran on CDs, they used to watch movies on CDs. Those fuckin kids don't know about VCDs, or burning mpeg video to a data CD
this is so fucking cool, i remember doing this when i was little, Partner has a tape deck in his car, so I bought him a cassette as a gift one year and he loved it. I wish I had a physical CD player to play my audio CDs (I only have a computer BD drive, which can rip CDs into Jellyfin, or play them with apps, but it's NOT THE SAME), and a tape deck to listen to tapes. But I do have a bunch of records of video game music lol. I even got the Outer Wilds OST on record somehow which is super rare lol. god i should figure out how to get it all set up in my office... listen to records at work, get up to flip them every so often is good because it'll remind me to take breaks ... ok once again you've got me thinking lmao.
fuck yes, or movies as 2 cds
Yeah I know right??? Also I'd give you one of my CD players if I could. I have a spare single disc and a few changers, Technics and JVC. If you have a good DVD player with face controls they make good CD players too. Your collection sounds based as hell, and yeah you should actually. I know a ton about turntables so I could give advice :3
Woah did you burn movies in two parts to two CDs? Hardcore.
I'll respond more properly later but I set up my record player again on my crowded desk thanks to your post, v nice. I like watching it spin lol. (I hope there's nothing doxxable in this pic)
i appreciate the thought :) i'd need a new shelf as there are too many retro consoles in my living room lol. and unfortunately we don't have a DVD player, just a raspberry pi with libreelec on it, a gaming pc which i move around to various places, and ... retro consoles. so many retro consoles, lol (I suppose the PS2 or Dreamcast could be a DVD player, actually, and CDs, but using the gaming controller for a CD player is weird a bit, and I don't want to have the TV on...)
edit: i have a tiny cd collection, lol, i can post a pic if you'd like. content warning: contains classical music and video game music
(no, we don't have a CRT :( just a retrotink)
I have one (you've seen), but honestly I wouldn't turn down an Ash turntable post if you're still willing :) (although I am noticing that there's a shuffling sound in only the right speaker, i tried cleaning the needle with a little needle cleaner, but it's still there. not sure if it's this record or not)
I mean, if it comes as 1.4GB, you might as well split it up right? haha
Yeahhhh game consoles work in a pinch but it's not the same as a hifi component. I see you went and got rid of most of your disc stuff though, lol. Also alas no CRT, a retrotink is a good solution though too. Feel free to post your CD collection, game music
That was cool, pretty decent turntable. Uh I have the worst and most annoying opinions on turntables so maybe, Idk. A "shuffling" in the right speaker, maybe a ground issue? I do have issues with modern records being pressed badly though.
Lmao 1.4GB, that's awesome though. Most people I know just compressed em until 700mb, lol
it's pretty ok, not the same of course.
ok so actually most of my physical game music is vinyl actually, which may be a bit harder to take this kind of picture of... but uh, here's my CDs don't make fun
actually, question about this... i have an amp with a phono input, which sounded pretty good, but it lives downstairs. i set it up in home office today, using the phono amp built-in to the turntable. that shouldn't need a ground, right?
actually my biggest disappointment was Skyrim, which was a super noisy pressing, and a super quiet mix. the quality is all over the place for sure.
fitting for a Bethesda game, and i'm a little cooled on it now that I've heard a bit more about the composer.
my favourite game vinyls are celeste, frostpunk, undertale, but i have too many...
Japanese Katamari releases? Smelly anime music? A copy of The Planets? Waow...... (BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED)
Yeah not if you use the built-in one. Waow though, not many people have amps with phono stages anymore...
LMAO ME TOO, but yeah I bought a copy of an Alice Coltrane album a while ago, and it's super quiet and noisy. Very sad. Waow you're kind of an enthusiast, even! ✨
Celeste lp
oh, i just realized my taste in music was always a sore spot for me and i wouldn't talk about it because people would make fun of me lol... thank you, it's nice to hear :)
i bought this one in part because it had one, actually (and i assembled a set of speakers to go with it from a kit that my dad recommended, so much soldering... but it sounds pretty good to me!) ... ok so real talk, give me your opinions on built-in phono stages. yay or nah? i don't want to ask the larger internet because on the larger internet the answer is always "spend more money no matter what." also, you are piquing my curiosity when you say you have "annoying" opinions lol (no pressure tho of course, fr, do what's best for you)
damn, yeah i went on a record binge for sure, and the quality differences are huge. some new records sound excellent, some not so much. i love video game music tho, i have like ... 50k songs in jellyfin, most of them are from video games... i just kinda ... collect it... and we listen when we cook or play board games or just whenever.
oh fuck, i fucking love jazz, btw, we have some jazz vinyl, Kamasi Washington (god i love Harmony of Difference), Miles Davis (duh), Yussef Kamaal. Partner bought them but I really like them, despite knowing nothing about jazz. if you were to recommend an Alice Coltrane (who I only just heard of, but Wikipedia claims is a jazz musician) piece as like an introduction to her work, what would you recommend?
Oh, rip. Gulag sentences for anyone that makes fun of you. I don't really think there's anything bullyable in there, although I also don't bully people's music taste generally.
YOU! You're the hifi person we've been looking for
Built in phono stages... on the turntable or receiver? For the turntable I'd say nah. the Audio-Technica LP120 is slightly famous for a built in preamp that maybe degrades audio quality slightly, people cut em out. On the receiver end, depends on the age. 90s and 00s receivers and amps I dunno, but the gear from the 60s through the 80s will for sure have an awesome phono stage. My JVC R-X81 makes killer sound and rips. I have weird taste in gear lol
Uh it's gotta be Journey to Satchidanada, banger album. Her whole discog should be pretty good too. Also I gotta be real you hjave way more jazz experience than me lol. Think my wife listens to a lot more...
oh hey, it's a long post, lmao
i appreciate that :)
a-s801. actually recommended by my dad, he watches these videos for fun haha. but i like it a lot, for a while i thought the usb was broken on linux, but turns out the usb cable was too long. (i had to use usb because my old video card would have audio dropouts) i use hdmi audio -> tv -> optical out -> amp just so we don't have to do a lot of inputs (the retrotink setup is already pretty involved, the back of the tv is a disaster). when i had the turntable set up downstairs, it sounded pretty good through the amp's phono stage. unfortunately it's huge and i kinda want to listen to records with headphones, hidden away in my office, which means i needed to use the built-in or try and get something for that.
okay so i had to dig through some photos, and it turns out that in fact i did take some! they're a bit old, and i cropped them a bit to hopefully remove any doxxy bits (i hope i did that right...)
These are from a couple years ago. Once again, dad recommended the kits. I love building things, esp. electronics. i didn't design the crossovers, just followed the schematics, not pictured is the terry bear stuffing i used for foam. they sound really good to me, and my dad thought so too, so i must have done an ok job. Not the first thing I've built, and I promise I got better at soldering after this (I think this photo was pre-trim and pre-soldering, i was triple checking everything before i started committing lol)
he keeps trying to persuade me to get into surround sound but i dont want the cables and mostly play retro games. most music i listen to (when i want to listen just by myself and Partner isn't using the tv) with headphones, of which i am a basic bitch with my hd600s (when i'm not using bluetooth noise cancelling headphones).
yep, indeed this is an LP120. i have to say i was disappointed by the quality of the built-in when i tried it earlier (on certain records), i was wondering if i had it too loud, or maybe just not used to hearing vinyl through headphones, or maybe needed to EQ upper-mids a bitor maybe it was the records which sounded fine before, because a couple of tracks sounded kinda painful to my ears, which is not a thing I remember from speakers... might be the stage, it could have a funky EQ curve, maybe? just sounded a bit weird vs how i remember, possible that's the stage.
still enjoyed it though, and it was good to pull it out again though, thank you. for the encouragement haha.
wow, i literally could not find search results on the R-X81, just the R-X80, are they similar? if so, damn that's a cool aesthetic, frick, i miss busy LCDs and lots of button haha, i got as close as i could with mine.
totally, there's a site that I download them from, i hoard them when i can since, you know, copyright stupidity. i buy them physical if i really love the game.
fair, i poked Partner about this, he's the jazz seeker in this relationship lol.
oh, i made the speaker cables too, and it was my first time using heatshrink, and i dont have a heat gun so i used a lighter lol
update: i think it was that record actually, i dont hear it on the other record, lol
I'd have so many records if I was rich
Cassettes of punk/crossover thrash/hardcore/black metal bands have a certain je ne se quoi to them too, the low fidelity adds a little something to some genres