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Messiah for sale
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Artificial general intelligence
Artificial general intelligence
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Six soldiers in the dock
Six soldiers in the dock
By ALEXANDRE ARAGÃO DE ALBUQUERQUE: The historic scene of six military men in the dock is a symbol of the downfall of the coup project that aimed to prevent Lula from "going up the ramp to the Planalto Palace"
Song to Brother Sun
Song to Brother Sun
By LEONARDO BOFF: The 800th anniversary of St. Francis' "Canticle of the Creatures" as an antidote to the Judeo-Christian anthropocentrism that Lynn White Jr. identified as the root of the contemporary ecological crisis
The future situation of Russia
The future situation of Russia
By EMMANUEL TODD: French historian reveals how he predicted 'return of Russia' in 2002 based on falling infant mortality (1993-1999) and knowledge of communal family structure that survived communism as a 'stable cultural backdrop'
Expand industrial employment
Expand industrial employment
By VALTER POMAR: Response to Renato Dagnino's article
Break with Israel now!
Break with Israel now!
By FRANCISCO FOOT HARDMAN: Brazil must uphold its highly meritorious tradition of independent foreign policy by breaking with the genocidal state that exterminated 55 Palestinians in Gaza
Third way, hypocrisy
Third way, hypocrisy
By LUIZ MARQUES: The conciliation between neoliberalism and social democracy has failed, uncovering the sewer of anti-politics and reinforcing the illusion that the market is not responsible for inequities
For a plebeian self-education
For a plebeian self-education
By JOSE MAURICE DOMINGUES: A question and eleven theses on the left and the agenda in a conjuncture of dissolution
The money in the wine bag
The money in the wine bag
By MONICA LOYOLA STIVAL: Agribusiness accounts for 27,4% of GDP by promoting deforestation and receives 158 billion in tax breaks
Guardianship and silence – the oligarchic-military pact in Brazil
Guardianship and silence – the oligarchic-military pact in Brazil
By JOÃO DOS REIS SILVA JUNIOR: Behind the legal codes and Brazilian republican institutions there still beats an "authoritarian heart" that beats whenever the citizens dare to speak out
The conviction of Cristina Kirchner
The conviction of Cristina Kirchner
By LUCAS RETIREMENT: Cristina's conviction represents yet another "very serious political error" by a Court that, in less than 10 years, has accelerated the institutional crisis and the increase in poverty
José Marcio Rego
José Marcio Rego
By ARID PERSIO: Article from the recently released collection, organized by Luis Felipe Lebert Cozac
Norm and transgression in the novel “Fight Club”
Norm and transgression in the novel “Fight Club”
By LUCIANA MOLINA: Foreword to the book by Joacy Ghizzi Neto
Bach and Walter Lourenção
Bach and Walter Lourenção
By WALNICE NOGUEIRA GALVÃO: Bach's 300 years in Leipzig and Walter Lourenção's 95 years at Rádio Cultura reveal how both faced the musician's servile condition: Bach in the "lackey's livery" that humiliated artists until the XNUMXth century, Lourenção in the liquidation of his program by the station
The Pope in the work of Machado de Assis – part 3
The Pope in the work of Machado de Assis – part 3
By FILIPE DE FREITAS GONÇALVES: How Machado de Assis anticipated in 1897 the contemporary dilemma of Francis: "defense of dogma without agitation for war" in the face of "established facts" that cannot be banished from the world
Niède Guidon (1933-2025)
Niède Guidon (1933-2025)
By RENATO JANINE RIBEIRO: Niède Guidon was a visionary who combined science, courage and social commitment to transform the Piauí hinterland into a world center of knowledge about humanity
The Bolsheviks and Literature
The Bolsheviks and Literature
By CELSO FREDERICO: Between the Leninist preference for 19th-century realism and Mayakovsky's "strange and incomprehensible" avant-garde, the Bolshevik paradox emerges: how to build proletarian culture without falling into Bogdanov's "religious atheism" or futurist frivolity?
Philosophical discourse on primitive accumulation
Philosophical discourse on primitive accumulation
By NATALIA T. RODRIGUES: Commentary on the book by Pedro Rocha de Oliveira
Hayek's bastards
Hayek's bastards
By AMARO FLECK: Review of Quinn Slobodian's newly released book
100 years of “Battleship Potemkin”
100 years of “Battleship Potemkin”
By JOÃO LANARI BO: Sergei Eisenstein's work spanned the 20th century as an indispensable reference for lovers of the seventh art – in fact, it was one of the decisive arguments for the characterization of cinema as a “seventh art”
Scientists Who Wrote Fiction
Scientists Who Wrote Fiction
By URARIAN MOTA: Forgotten scientist-writers (Freud, Galileo, Primo Levi) and writer-scientists (Proust, Tolstoy), in a manifesto against the artificial separation between reason and sensibility
Children and exile
Children and exile
By ANGELINA PERALVA: Commentary on the recently released book, organized by Nadejda Marques and Helena Lucas de Oliveira
Chimeras of the now
Chimeras of the now
By DANIEL BRAZIL: Comment on Ana Rüsche's newly released book
Messiah for sale
Messiah for sale
By EMILIO CAFASSI: From collective organization to faith – current forms of mystical populism
Artificial general intelligence
Artificial general intelligence
By DIOGO F. BARDAL: Diogo Bardal subverts contemporary technological panic by questioning why a truly superior intelligence would embark on the "apex of alienation" of power and domination, proposing that genuine AGI will uncover the "imprisoning biases" of utilitarianism and technical progress
Six soldiers in the dock
Six soldiers in the dock
By ALEXANDRE ARAGÃO DE ALBUQUERQUE: The historic scene of six military men in the dock is a symbol of the downfall of the coup project that aimed to prevent Lula from "going up the ramp to the Planalto Palace"
Song to Brother Sun
Song to Brother Sun
By LEONARDO BOFF: The 800th anniversary of St. Francis' "Canticle of the Creatures" as an antidote to the Judeo-Christian anthropocentrism that Lynn White Jr. identified as the root of the contemporary ecological crisis
The future situation of Russia
The future situation of Russia
By EMMANUEL TODD: French historian reveals how he predicted 'return of Russia' in 2002 based on falling infant mortality (1993-1999) and knowledge of communal family structure that survived communism as a 'stable cultural backdrop'
Expand industrial employment
Expand industrial employment
By VALTER POMAR: Response to Renato Dagnino's article
Break with Israel now!
Break with Israel now!
By FRANCISCO FOOT HARDMAN: Brazil must uphold its highly meritorious tradition of independent foreign policy by breaking with the genocidal state that exterminated 55 Palestinians in Gaza
Third way, hypocrisy
Third way, hypocrisy
By LUIZ MARQUES: The conciliation between neoliberalism and social democracy has failed, uncovering the sewer of anti-politics and reinforcing the illusion that the market is not responsible for inequities
For a plebeian self-education
For a plebeian self-education
By JOSE MAURICE DOMINGUES: A question and eleven theses on the left and the agenda in a conjuncture of dissolution
The money in the wine bag
The money in the wine bag
By MONICA LOYOLA STIVAL: Agribusiness accounts for 27,4% of GDP by promoting deforestation and receives 158 billion in tax breaks
Guardianship and silence – the oligarchic-military pact in Brazil
Guardianship and silence – the oligarchic-military pact in Brazil
By JOÃO DOS REIS SILVA JUNIOR: Behind the legal codes and Brazilian republican institutions there still beats an "authoritarian heart" that beats whenever the citizens dare to speak out
The conviction of Cristina Kirchner
The conviction of Cristina Kirchner
By LUCAS RETIREMENT: Cristina's conviction represents yet another "very serious political error" by a Court that, in less than 10 years, has accelerated the institutional crisis and the increase in poverty
José Marcio Rego
José Marcio Rego
By ARID PERSIO: Article from the recently released collection, organized by Luis Felipe Lebert Cozac
Norm and transgression in the novel “Fight Club”
Norm and transgression in the novel “Fight Club”
By LUCIANA MOLINA: Foreword to the book by Joacy Ghizzi Neto
Bach and Walter Lourenção
Bach and Walter Lourenção
By WALNICE NOGUEIRA GALVÃO: Bach's 300 years in Leipzig and Walter Lourenção's 95 years at Rádio Cultura reveal how both faced the musician's servile condition: Bach in the "lackey's livery" that humiliated artists until the XNUMXth century, Lourenção in the liquidation of his program by the station
The Pope in the work of Machado de Assis – part 3
The Pope in the work of Machado de Assis – part 3
By FILIPE DE FREITAS GONÇALVES: How Machado de Assis anticipated in 1897 the contemporary dilemma of Francis: "defense of dogma without agitation for war" in the face of "established facts" that cannot be banished from the world
Niède Guidon (1933-2025)
Niède Guidon (1933-2025)
By RENATO JANINE RIBEIRO: Niède Guidon was a visionary who combined science, courage and social commitment to transform the Piauí hinterland into a world center of knowledge about humanity
The Bolsheviks and Literature
The Bolsheviks and Literature
By CELSO FREDERICO: Between the Leninist preference for 19th-century realism and Mayakovsky's "strange and incomprehensible" avant-garde, the Bolshevik paradox emerges: how to build proletarian culture without falling into Bogdanov's "religious atheism" or futurist frivolity?
Philosophical discourse on primitive accumulation
Philosophical discourse on primitive accumulation
By NATALIA T. RODRIGUES: Commentary on the book by Pedro Rocha de Oliveira
Hayek's bastards
Hayek's bastards
By AMARO FLECK: Review of Quinn Slobodian's newly released book
100 years of “Battleship Potemkin”
100 years of “Battleship Potemkin”
By JOÃO LANARI BO: Sergei Eisenstein's work spanned the 20th century as an indispensable reference for lovers of the seventh art – in fact, it was one of the decisive arguments for the characterization of cinema as a “seventh art”
Scientists Who Wrote Fiction
Scientists Who Wrote Fiction
By URARIAN MOTA: Forgotten scientist-writers (Freud, Galileo, Primo Levi) and writer-scientists (Proust, Tolstoy), in a manifesto against the artificial separation between reason and sensibility
Children and exile
Children and exile
By ANGELINA PERALVA: Commentary on the recently released book, organized by Nadejda Marques and Helena Lucas de Oliveira
Chimeras of the now
Chimeras of the now
By DANIEL BRAZIL: Comment on Ana Rüsche's newly released book

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Fragments XXXIX
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Carlos Lacerda, the liberal
Carlos Lacerda, the liberal
By LUCIO FLAVIO RODRIGUES DE ALMEIDA: The UDN - "party of armed candidates" - systematically questioned electoral legitimacy, trying to prevent Vargas and Kubitschek from taking office, in a direct genealogy of the coup practices that culminated in 1964 and echo in Bolsonarism
In the cultural swamp
In the cultural swamp
By EUGENIO BUCCI: The reliability of information can no longer be based on the careful plastic framing, but on the word of honor of those who recorded, edited and aired it.
The ideology of capital placed on platforms
The ideology of capital placed on platforms
By ELEUTÉRIO FS PRADO: Eleutério Prado reveals how Peter Thiel inverts Marxist criticism to argue that "capitalism and competition are opposites", crystallizing monopoly as virtuous while promising "cities of freedom" policed ​​by robots with artificial intelligence
Frontal opposition to the Lula government is ultra-leftism
Frontal opposition to the Lula government is ultra-leftism
By VALERIO ARCARY: The frontal opposition to the Lula government, at this moment, is not vanguard — it is shortsightedness. While the PSol oscillates below 5% and Bolsonarism maintains 30% of the country, the anti-capitalist left cannot afford to be 'the most radical in the room'
Water Fluoridation – Franco Montoro vs. Kennedy Jr.
Water Fluoridation – Franco Montoro vs. Kennedy Jr.
By PAULO CAPEL NARVAI: The epidemiology of dental caries has changed completely in children from São Paulo, its main victims, in the 40 years between 2025 and 1985. Montoro got it right; Kennedy Jr. is getting it wrong
Nuclear war?
Nuclear war?
By RUBEN BAUER NAVEIRA: Putin declared the US a "state sponsor of terrorism," and now two nuclear superpowers dance on the edge of the abyss while Trump still sees himself as a peacemaker
The time of hell besieging reason
The time of hell besieging reason
By EMILIO CAFASSI: From the laboratory of impunity in Gaza to the complicit silence of Europe: a genocide that exposes the ethical bankruptcy of modern reason
Guard dogs
Guard dogs
By EMILIANO JOSEPH: The Turkish Rifle in the editorial office of Folha de São Paulo
Writing with the world's intelligence
Writing with the world's intelligence
By TALES AB'SÁBER: The Death of the Fragment: How Microsoft's Copilot Reduced My Critique of Fascism to Democratic Clichés
Open letter to Jews in Brazil
Open letter to Jews in Brazil
By PETER PÁL PELBART: “Not in our name.” The urgent call to Brazilian Jews against the genocide in Gaza
Introduction to Capital
Introduction to Capital
By FERNANDO RUGITSKY: Excerpt from the Introduction to the new edition of Karl Marx's book.

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Fragments XXXIX
Fragments XXXIX
By AIRTON PASCHOA: Seven short pieces
Carlos Lacerda, the liberal
Carlos Lacerda, the liberal
By LUCIO FLAVIO RODRIGUES DE ALMEIDA: The UDN - "party of armed candidates" - systematically questioned electoral legitimacy, trying to prevent Vargas and Kubitschek from taking office, in a direct genealogy of the coup practices that culminated in 1964 and echo in Bolsonarism
In the cultural swamp
In the cultural swamp
By EUGENIO BUCCI: The reliability of information can no longer be based on the careful plastic framing, but on the word of honor of those who recorded, edited and aired it.
The ideology of capital placed on platforms
The ideology of capital placed on platforms
By ELEUTÉRIO FS PRADO: Eleutério Prado reveals how Peter Thiel inverts Marxist criticism to argue that "capitalism and competition are opposites", crystallizing monopoly as virtuous while promising "cities of freedom" policed ​​by robots with artificial intelligence
Frontal opposition to the Lula government is ultra-leftism
Frontal opposition to the Lula government is ultra-leftism
By VALERIO ARCARY: The frontal opposition to the Lula government, at this moment, is not vanguard — it is shortsightedness. While the PSol oscillates below 5% and Bolsonarism maintains 30% of the country, the anti-capitalist left cannot afford to be 'the most radical in the room'
Water Fluoridation – Franco Montoro vs. Kennedy Jr.
Water Fluoridation – Franco Montoro vs. Kennedy Jr.
By PAULO CAPEL NARVAI: The epidemiology of dental caries has changed completely in children from São Paulo, its main victims, in the 40 years between 2025 and 1985. Montoro got it right; Kennedy Jr. is getting it wrong
Nuclear war?
Nuclear war?
By RUBEN BAUER NAVEIRA: Putin declared the US a "state sponsor of terrorism," and now two nuclear superpowers dance on the edge of the abyss while Trump still sees himself as a peacemaker
The time of hell besieging reason
The time of hell besieging reason
By EMILIO CAFASSI: From the laboratory of impunity in Gaza to the complicit silence of Europe: a genocide that exposes the ethical bankruptcy of modern reason
Guard dogs
Guard dogs
By EMILIANO JOSEPH: The Turkish Rifle in the editorial office of Folha de São Paulo
Writing with the world's intelligence
Writing with the world's intelligence
By TALES AB'SÁBER: The Death of the Fragment: How Microsoft's Copilot Reduced My Critique of Fascism to Democratic Clichés
Open letter to Jews in Brazil
Open letter to Jews in Brazil
By PETER PÁL PELBART: “Not in our name.” The urgent call to Brazilian Jews against the genocide in Gaza
Introduction to Capital
Introduction to Capital
By FERNANDO RUGITSKY: Excerpt from the Introduction to the new edition of Karl Marx's book.

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