System Hacks
Gold for Goa, Porcelain for Pemba: From Empire’s Depths to People’s Hands
From colonial seabeds to schoolbooks and syringes: $95 million in pirate treasure to fund futures once denied.
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Coded Dreams
From Empire to Innovation: Macau’s South-South Circuit
A Brazilian startup wins big in Macau’s innovation circuit — revealing how a once-colonial outpost is becoming the Global South’s soft-tech gateway to China.
Street Syntax
The Struggle Has a Motorcycle Engine: Paulo Galo, Lisbon, and the New Cartographies of Labor
From Brazil’s gig economy protests to Europe’s migrant frontlines, Galo de Luta maps the struggles that cross borders but share the same enemy.
System Hacks
The Delivery Man Is Not the Problem: Portugal’s Hypocritical Blind Spot
While migrant workers deliver dinner, global elites buy the city. It’s time to shift the blame.
Diaspora Aesthetics
The Alphabet of Monsters: Fefe Talavera’s Ritual of Rupture
In the cracked walls of São Paulo, letters sprout claws, beasts take shape from typeface, and chaos refuses to be tamed. Fefe Talavera doesn’t paint for galleries—she paints for the restless subconscious.
Sonic Cartographies
Loud, Loved, and Unapologetic: The Life of Preta Gil
Brazil mourns the loss of a pop icon, a radical body activist, and an unapologetic breaker of taboos.
Sonic Cartographies
Glitter and Gunshots: Inside Brazil’s Loudest Love Songs and Dirtiest Beats
From Belém’s pirated romance anthems to Recife’s pelvic revolutions and Rio’s favela raves, a new sonic map of resistance emerges—cheap, vulgar, sexy, and impossible to ignore.
Shifting Grounds
The Curve and the Edge: Architecture as Promise and Protest
What Brazilian architecture reveals about class, ideology, and the battle for public space.
Ancestral Echoes
Drawing from the Ashes: Post-Conflict Art in Timor-Leste
From freestyle rap battles to thread-based ritual installations, young artists in Timor-Leste are reclaiming their future through underground sound, sacred memory, and community-led aesthetics.
System Hacks
From Serie C to Social Vanguard: Bahia FC’s Radical Rise
How a once broken team from Salvador became Brazil’s loudest voice for love, justice, and radical football.
Sonic Cartographies
Sweat, Screens, and Scirocco: Wolfram’s Rituals of Heat
From Vienna’s disco underground to Lisbon’s sonic laboratories, Wolfram reimagines dance culture as moving image, projected ritual, and climate metaphor.
Random Urgencies
Beyond the Green Mirage: Climate Politics, Suffering, and the New Amazonian Order
REDD+, carbon credits, and the Anthropocene are reshaping the Amazon—but not in the ways glossy sustainability campaigns would have you believe. This is not about saving nature. It’s about surviving the collapse.