1A+ Dispatch (Page 11)

Coded Dreams

Intergalactic Bapho: How Pajubá Became the Operating System of AfroTranstopia

By speaking from the scar, we write ourselves into the future.

Street Syntax

Semiotic Sabotage: Daniel Lisboa and the Urban Poetry of Disobedience

A fugitive voice rewrites colonial grammar on the walls of Lisbon, one fragment at a time.

Ancestral Echoes

Erasing Exu: The Right-Wing Crusade Against Afro-Brazilian Faith

How Brazil’s Evangelical Right Is Erasing the Orisha to Reclaim a Whitewashed Nation

Shifting Grounds

The Soft Violence of Discovery

From admiration to erasure: reflections on being a foreign creative in a country slowly pricing out its own.

Sonic Cartographies

Funk Without Power: Rabanne’s Rio Campaign and the Cost of Aesthetic Celebration

As high fashion discovers Brazilian funk, a campaign by Paco Rabanne raises questions about visibility without authorship, and celebration without equity.

System Hacks

Soundtrack or Sanction? Rethinking the Ban on Beach Sound Systems in Portugal

The current zero-tolerance approach risks turning public beaches into over-regulated zones where conviviality is mistaken for misconduct.

Random Urgencies

Project 27027: Techno, Trees, and the Future of Liquid Sky

The Radical Ecology of Dr. Walker

Random Urgencies

When You Try to Be the Regional Peacemaker but Everyone’s Fighting

Angola rolled out the red carpet for Congo’s warring sides. The rebels bailed, the bullets didn’t, and TikTok teens are quitting vapes in protest.

Coded Dreams

Blackout Protocol: Fictions from a Post-Data Underground

What if the power failure wasn’t the end—but the return of ancestral intelligence?

Street Syntax

The Black Script: How Pixação Redrew the Urban Map

To the untrained eye, it's a smear of cryptic lines, perhaps a defacement of the city’s clean lines and light-colored walls.

Diaspora Aesthetics

Postcolonial Frequencies: The Sound Is the Monument

In the ruins of a colonial statue, an Angolan artist orchestrates a new memory