Sonic Cartographies
Before Netflix and Chill, There Was Samba and Canvas
Di Cavalcanti turned samba from criminal soundtrack into modernist masterpiece. Then capitalism ate it alive.
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Street Syntax
Your Food, Their Blood: The Hidden Violence of the Delivery Economy
The death of a delivery worker has exposed the brutal reality of Brazil's gig economy – where refusing to climb stairs can cost you your life.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Coffee Money and Manifesto Dreams: Brazil's Modernist Con
The oligarchs who funded Brazil's "cultural revolution" while writing about racial degeneracy and colonial nostalgia.
Coded Dreams
Felca vs. The Algorithm: The Influencer Who Refused 50 Million
Felca never asked to be a moral compass, but his viral takedowns of beauty scams, betting apps, and child exploitation made him one anyway.
System Hacks
Teen Scientist Just Punked Big Plastic: Cassava!
How a school science project from Brazil could flip the script on packaging waste.
Street Syntax
Gangsters in Gucci, Gasoline in Methanol
Inside the PCC’s billion-dollar fuel empire that turned gas stations, fintechs, and hedge funds into a laundering machine.
Random Urgencies
Immigrants Fought Portugal’s Fires. The Far Right Lit a Different One.
As migrant brigades risked their lives, André Ventura rolled up his sleeves for Instagram.
Random Urgencies
Portugal’s Disinformation Problem Is About Power, Not Migrants
False claims about migrants are spreading faster than truth. This isn’t about schools or services. It’s about who gets to control the story.
Sonic Cartographies
Radio Bruxaria: DJ K’s Funk of Liberation
DJ K calls it bruxaria: a sonic language of rupture and survival that reimagines funk as both ritual chaos and political weapon.
Street Syntax
The Turnstile Wardrobe: How Brazil’s Public Transport Dictates Everyday Fashion
Between sweat, steel, and silence, Brazilian fashion is forged not on the runway but on the bus aisle.
Ancestral Echoes
When Pop Meets Ancestry: Anitta, the Xingu, and Brazil's Battle for Indigenous Futures
How a pop star's ritual participation sparked 6,200% more searches—and hard questions about solidarity.
Shifting Grounds
Quiet Luxury x Coastal Lockout: The Velvet Rope Beaches of the Alentejo
How Portugal’s public beaches became a playground for billionaires, one villa at a time.