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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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