System Hacks
Shadowbanned by Reality: The Theatre of the Feed, and Who Gets the Mic
The right speaks in emojis. The left speaks in footnotes. And the feed listens to who screams louder.
1A+ Dispatch
Context Is A Luxury.
Shifting Grounds
The River Between Us: Almada Between Memory and Masterplan
What exactly is at stake for Almada? And what does this say about the future of urban Portugal?
Sonic Cartographies
The Sonic Contrabandist: Berlin called, Rio answered
Daniel Haaksman doesn't just play records—he traffics in frequencies, philosophies, and fever dreams, all pressed onto wax and hurled across continents like sonic grenades.
Coded Dreams
Amazofuturism: Tupinambá Time Machines
They say the forest holds the memory of all things. That the river doesn’t forget the footsteps of the jaguar, nor the whisper of a canoe gliding across its surface at dawn.
Street Syntax
Samba, Syntax, and Saudade: The Power Struggle Inside a Shared Tongue
It didn’t just evolve—Brazilian Portuguese danced, improvised, and sang its way into the future. Now, with its melodies spreading through music, film, and screens worldwide, Portugal is left wondering whether its own linguistic cadence is being drowned out.
Shifting Grounds
Reclaiming the Tracks: Transpraia’s Second Life
On a forgotten beach line, Portugal reimagines a future of collective movement.
Random Urgencies
Pridewashed: How Liberation Became a Lobby
No justice, no pride—why Lisbons EuroPride 2025 is under fire from within the queer community.
Ancestral Echoes
Operação Angola and the Generation That Escaped to Free a Continent
In a year of guns and shadows, they chose flight over silence. The road to liberation began in the corridors of a student dormitory.
System Hacks
The Migrant Who Votes Against Himself
On the Absurdity of Chega’s Diaspora Triumph.
Sonic Cartographies
Marianne 3.0: The Unfolding Of An Artist Beyond Form
Multidisciplinary by nature and necessity, Marianne is not simply building a career — they are sculpting a new territory of expression, where gender, genre, and gesture are freed from the strict lines of categorization.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Uncredited and Iconic: Bea Feitler and the Politics of the Page
Bea Feitler didn’t just design layouts—she recomposed the power of the printed page.
Sonic Cartographies
Speaking in Tongues: Language, Identity, and Hip-Hop Tuga
How Hip-Hop Tuga Moved From the Margins to the Mirror.