The Everyday as a Prison: Reflections on Time and Repetition

By Antônio Carlos

Not all prisons have bars. Sometimes, confinement appears in repeated gestures, automatic language, and domesticated silence. This book explores the ambivalence of everyday life: a space of safety that may also be a space of erasure; a place of stability that can also become symbolic exhaustion. Through forty philosophical fragments, it interrogates repetition not as punishment, but as a riddle.

How can one find freedom inside the familiar? How does desire survive where everything has already been anticipated? Themes such as habit, boredom, measured time, automated speech and mechanical gestures are approached not through dramatic ruptures, but through subtle shifts - quiet movements capable of restoring meaning to the ordinary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FN7CZCRR
• ISBN13: 9798298803922
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"