Sonic Cartographies
Dispatches from a Narco-State: The Rap That Tried to Stop It
What has changed ten years later? From denunciation to silence in the soundtrack of a fragile state.
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Coded Dreams
Cosmic Quilombos and Digital Orishas: Hacking History with Candomblé and Code
How a new wave of Black Brazilian authors is building alternate timelines, digital ancestries, and cosmic counterattacks to whitewashed history
Ancestral Echoes
The Future Is Not an App: Ailton Krenak and the Revolt of the Living World
What if the future isn’t something to invent, but something to remember? Ailton Krenak dares to ask what humanity has forgotten in its rush toward oblivion.
Ancestral Echoes
Dandara: The Forgotten Strategist Who Resisted Slavery and Redefined Power
Long before feminist theory had a name, Dandara dos Palmares was putting it into practice. A rebel. A leader. A woman who chose death over submission.
System Hacks
Trying to Trend: How Brazil’s Left Is Learning the Rules of Virality
They’ve got the AI. They’ve got the influencers. Now all they need is the algorithm’s blessing.
Sonic Cartographies
Crioulo Flow Meets Atlantic Glow: Summol Summer Fest
Sumol Summer Fest connects continents and communities—but Almada has always known the rhythm.
System Hacks
A Banana, a Billion, and the Future of Pix
From street corners to Lisbon supermarkets, Brazil’s payment utopia learns the cost of open access.
Coded Dreams
The Algorithm Speaks Portuguese: Digital Colonialism in the Age of TikTok
How Lusophone Africa's Cultural Export Fuels Global Platforms While Creators Remain Economically Marginalized.
Ancestral Echoes
Mascot of the Apocalypse: Backward Feet, Forward Lies
Curupira was never meant to be cute. Why climate summits love Indigenous symbols but ignore Indigenous sovereignty.
Sonic Cartographies
Audible Economies: Soundtrack da Quebrada
A cultural history of Brazil’s mobile street vendors and the sounds that shape neighborhood identity.
Street Syntax
Blessed by Bullets and Bibles: Narco-Pentecostalism on the rise
In Rio's favelas, AK-47s and prayer books go hand in hand as a new breed of narco-evangelicals rewrites the rules of crime and faith
Ancestral Echoes
The Art of Patience: Slow Food, Wild Walks, and a Life in Ferment
Whether in a jar or along a trail, Fermen.table is cultivating more than taste—it’s restoring a rhythm that modern life has forgotten: slow, local, and quietly alive.