Why is there no international outcry for Lula?

**disclaimer: this is not actually on Amnesty International, but there is reason for international indignation against political imprisonment, and someone … More

Eyes Without a Face

The performance is one of many conducted by Chris Burden in the early 1970s, involving publicly exposing his body to … More

“Those people”

We were having a sensible talk about the Israel and Palestine issue. Like most sensible people, it really came down … More

Corruption is more effective in bringing down Temer than Fora Temer

All we cynics have left are memes. A new publication on Mangal Media: http://www.mangalmedia.net/english//sarcasm-and-corruption-more-effective-in-bringing-down-temer-than-foratemer

Lima Barreto on the city of Rio

One cannot comprehend a city without these marks of its previous life, without these annals of stone which tell its story. … More

Nostratic Kuni

Cunt cup come constellations cosmos collisions γυνή vagina genealogia logos loquo louco Generare scopare sbattere giacere giocare gozar Gozo nojo … More

A Psychedelic Story of New Year’s Renewal

It’s a well-known cliché that the year in Rio only really starts after the end of Carnaval. Without ever having participated in … More

#ForaTemer: Some Anthropological Notes on Credos and Carnaval

(a longer version of this article has been published on: http://www.mangalmedia.net/english//foratemer-some-anthropological-notes-on-credos-and-carnaval) Shouting Fora Temer may be the only political anchor amongst the booze, glitter … More

As Artes e os Perigos do Dirigismo – The Arts and the Dangers of Dirigisme (Gilberto Freyre)

A great text by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), published in the Diário de Pernambuco in Recife, on the 29th … More

On the possibility of a Rainbow

Here’s a piece on a really weird story this dude started telling me, then I asked his friends to tell … More

An Ode against Lattes

Reading some Bernard Lewis whilst on kanna, I came across this curious racist drinking song inserted in William Congreve’s play ‘The … More

Denied Entry! A Yid’s Guide to Interrogation

context: I’m a half New Yorker-Yiddish-Jew who also cares somewhat about social justice, but really just wanted to travel –to … More