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.
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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.
Ancestral Echoes
The Right to Be Seen: Afro-Brazilian Culture Reclaims Public Space
Erasure was policy. Visibility is resistance.
Sonic Cartographies
Jamaicaxias: The Afro-Diasporic Rebellion You’ve Never Heard Of
In the Baixada Fluminense, a dancehall beat defies the borders of empire and maps out a new world.
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The Glitter of Tradition, the Shadow of Cruelty: Bullfighting in Portugal
No tradition should survive just because it sparkles—especially when it leaves suffering in its wake.
Diaspora Aesthetics
The Mirror and the Lens: Neusa Sousa’s Portrait of São Tomé and Príncipe
In a country often reduced to chocolate and beaches, Neusa Sousa’s film offers something radical: a mirror held up to everyday life.
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The Road to Nowhere: Revisiting Iracema – Uma Transa Amazônica in an Age of Climate Collapse
In 1974, the Amazon Was Sacrificed for Progress. In 2025, the Ritual Continues.
Street Syntax
Drone Against the Dance: Policing Funk While Pretending to Honor It
When celebration becomes a crime, even drones are drafted into the policing of rhythm.
When the State Looks Away: The Peril of Indigenous Leadership
Legal guarantees on paper, death threats in practice: why defending Indigenous land still means risking everything.
Sonic Cartographies
Paulo Flores: Angola’s Unofficial Ambassador of Semba and Storytelling
Awarded Angola’s highest cultural honor, Paulo Flores continues to use music as a vessel for memory, resistance, and community—on stages from Luanda to Lisbon.
System Hacks
Democracy Beyond the Binary: Trans Women Transforming Brazilian Politics
In a country where trans bodies are often targets, three women are transforming them into symbols of resistance and governance.
Sonic Cartographies
Frequencies of Fire: The Anthropophagic Beat
How Brazil’s Artists Chew Up Oppression and Spit Out Sound.