System Hacks
Guardians of Democracy: Code, Courage, and the Civic Firewall
The Network of Civil Resistance Preparing for Brazil’s Next Ballot Battle.
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Ancestral Echoes
Echoes in Stone: Niéde Guidon and the Deep Time of Brazil
In the forgotten interior of Brazil, Niéde Guidon unearthed something older than myth and more fragile than truth: evidence that we arrived long before we thought.
Street Syntax
No Grammar, No Mercy: Literatura Marginal and the Riot on the Page
It doesn’t ask for attention. It steals it. Literatura Marginal is not an offshoot—it’s a rupture. Born in blood, beats, and broken Portuguese, this literary insurgency rewrites Brazil from the ruins up.
Sonic Cartographies
Neoperreo: Reggaetón's Dark, Queer, DIY Revolution
How a bedroom studio movement born in Latin America's underground became reggaetón's most radical reinvention
System Hacks
The Price of Green Redemption: How Many Johans Would It Take to Save the Amazon?
Can elite environmentalism protect the Amazon, or does it repeat colonial logic in a greener disguise?
Shifting Grounds
Traffic as Theatre: Lisbon’s Rush Hour as Performance of Urban Anxiety
From medieval alleys to motorway gridlocks, Lisbon performs modernity while choking on its own choreography.
Sonic Cartographies
Morabeza in the Mix: Cabo Verde’s Soundtrack of Identity
From morna to hip-hop, how a scattered nation rewrote its history through rhythm.
Street Syntax
Novela Das Nove: Brazil's 9pm Spell and the Sonic Shadow of Soft Power
From Salvador to Santiago, the Brazilian telenovela became a nightly ritual—and a quiet force of regional dominance.
Coded Dreams
AI Doesn’t Dream in Tupi – But It Might Learn Nheengatu
Brazil's forgotten Indigenous language is finding new life through artificial intelligence. Can algorithms help revive what colonisation tried to erase?
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.
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.