Diaspora Aesthetics
From São Paulo’s museums to the streets of Brasília, a trio of poet-hackers turned language into concrete, grids into weapons, and silence into the loudest sound of all.
Sonic Cartographies
Curitiba’s underground footwork slows the world down, turning plazas and nightclubs into laboratories of attitude, Oakleys, and deep house swagger.
Street Syntax
Prada and Red Bull prove again that spectacle is easy—community is harder. Watch the aesthetic gentrification of sport.
Ancestral Echoes
In Guinea-Bissau, a movement called Meninas Sem Peruca is ripping wigs off the colonial playbook and crowning Black women with their own damn power.
Diaspora Aesthetics
In the shadows of Rio, Gutman’s cinema found voices that spoke not of despair but of survival, dignity, and revolt.
Random Urgencies
São Paulo’s most iconic bookstore is being replaced by a YouTube Theater. The algorithm isn’t just on your screen anymore—it’s taking over Avenida Paulista.
Ancestral Echoes
The Bororo rapper is suing festivals, shredding stereotypes, and turning Indigenous rage into a future Brazil can’t censor.
Random Urgencies
Greenpeace Wins Landmark Case Against JBS in Brazil, a Victory for Protest and the Amazon.
Diaspora Aesthetics
From Oito Batutas’ Paris detour to pulp novels of drugged-up melindrosas, Rio hacked modernity with cracked code the elites tried to bury.
Street Syntax
Politicians want to criminalize baile funk. Young Black artists say it’s not just about music—it’s about erasing an entire culture.
Sonic Cartographies
She sings about love, but in Brazil love is political shrapnel — and Liniker’s voice makes the system bleed.
Diaspora Aesthetics
A Black Brazilian voice just hacked the Paris Opera, and the canon will never sound the same.