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.
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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.
Ancestral Echoes
The Center Holds: Lélia Gonzalez and the Black Soul of Brazil
From Samba to Sociology, How Lélia Gonzalez Shaped Brazil’s Radical Black Consciousness.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Between Shores and Systems: Where the Coquí Sings
Kongo Square Studio brings rhythm, research, and reciprocity to the centre of a quietly radical design practice.
Street Syntax
From Geloucos to Labubu: How Capitalism Packaged Our Dreams
What Brazil’s toy obsessions reveal about nostalgia, identity, and the quiet rituals of emotional survival.
Shifting Grounds
The Bulldozer Arrives Before the Solution: Evictions, Spectacle, and the Politics of Exclusion
As real estate speculation thrives, the Lisbon periphery becomes a battlefield where precarious lives are crushed under the weight of police operations and policy failures.
System Hacks
Democracia Já: The Sócrates Doctrine
He wasn’t just a footballer. He was a doctor, a drinker, a dissenter. And for a brief, blinding moment, he helped turn Corinthians into the most democratic football club on Earth.
Random Urgencies
The Nobility of Tax: Shared Wealth, Shared Future
On Fortune, Fairness, and the Duty to Contribute.
Sonic Cartographies
Pressing Back: How Porto’s Vinyl Revival Cuts Through the Noise of the Global Industry
From Steam to Signal: Vinyl’s Material Uprising in the Digital Age.