Climate change summit 2025
By FERNANDO MARTINI: One year after the devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre becomes the stage for urgent reflections on the planet's climate future
09/06/2025
By FERNANDO MARTINI: One year after the devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre becomes the stage for urgent reflections on the planet's climate future
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
By TALES AB'SÁBER: The Death of the Fragment: How Microsoft's Copilot Reduced My Critique of Fascism to Democratic Clichés
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: There are contradictions in the “electric revolution”. Battery production is highly polluting and labor-intensive in mining. Charging infrastructure is still uneven, with the risk of deepening territorial inequalities
By RENATO DAGNINO: It is up to the university to deconstruct capitalist technoscience and, through similar processes, but contaminated with other interests and values, guide it towards solidarity technoscience
By IVAN DA COSTA MARQUES: We should be building machines that work for us, rather than “adapting” society to be machine readable and writable
By PEDRO FALLEIROS HEISE: How is it possible to give a leash to a machine that knows how to lie so as not to appear more intelligent than us?
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Elephants use unique names, and moths listen to plant stress. These phenomena reinforce the idea that nature should be recognized as a political actor
By GABRIEL FREITAS: To strengthen its critique of capitalism, Marxism must incorporate a materialist theory of language: signs are not epiphenomena, but technologies that construct power
By BARBARA COELHO NEVES: AI's Unquenchable Thirst: How Generative AI Is Draining Water Resources at an Alarming Rate — and Why This Invisible Cost Needs to Enter the Climate Debate
By LETICIA MARICONDA: Pablo Mariconda (1949-2025): philosopher of science who challenged commodified technoscience and built bridges between critical knowledge, ethics and the democratization of knowledge
By JEAN MARC VON DER WEID: The double challenge of oil: while the world faces supply shortages and pressure for clean energy, Brazil invests heavily in pre-salt
By ELIAKIM FERREIRA OLIVEIRA & & OTTO CRESPO-SANCHEZ DA ROSA: Tribute to the recently deceased USP professor of philosophy of science
By MARCIO JOSE MENDONCA: Necropolitics and its killing techniques in the contemporary world based on drones with biopolitical methods that operate through algorithms of racial distinction
By HERALDO CAMPOS: “I am not poor, I am sober, with light luggage. I live with just enough so that things do not steal my freedom.” (Pepe Mujica)
By SERGIO AMADEU DA SILVEIRA: Fernando Haddad wants to attract data centers, but he doesn’t question who will control our data. Without chips, its own infrastructure or alliances with BRICS, Brazil deepens its dependence in the AI era
By TARSUS GENUS: The hegemonic dispute has migrated to digital control and the financialization of the State, with global actors and local elites eroding democracy in favor of private interests
By CAMILO SOARES: The lack of affection in a dehumanized gaze leads us to a dangerously smooth and predictable, generalist and idiotic world.
By KARIN BRÜNING: The correlation between Generation Z, Millennials and the increasing use of robots – a future in the making
By FERNANDO MARTINI: One year after the devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre becomes the stage for urgent reflections on the planet's climate future
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
By TALES AB'SÁBER: The Death of the Fragment: How Microsoft's Copilot Reduced My Critique of Fascism to Democratic Clichés
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: There are contradictions in the “electric revolution”. Battery production is highly polluting and labor-intensive in mining. Charging infrastructure is still uneven, with the risk of deepening territorial inequalities
By RENATO DAGNINO: It is up to the university to deconstruct capitalist technoscience and, through similar processes, but contaminated with other interests and values, guide it towards solidarity technoscience
By IVAN DA COSTA MARQUES: We should be building machines that work for us, rather than “adapting” society to be machine readable and writable
By PEDRO FALLEIROS HEISE: How is it possible to give a leash to a machine that knows how to lie so as not to appear more intelligent than us?
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Elephants use unique names, and moths listen to plant stress. These phenomena reinforce the idea that nature should be recognized as a political actor
By GABRIEL FREITAS: To strengthen its critique of capitalism, Marxism must incorporate a materialist theory of language: signs are not epiphenomena, but technologies that construct power
By BARBARA COELHO NEVES: AI's Unquenchable Thirst: How Generative AI Is Draining Water Resources at an Alarming Rate — and Why This Invisible Cost Needs to Enter the Climate Debate
By LETICIA MARICONDA: Pablo Mariconda (1949-2025): philosopher of science who challenged commodified technoscience and built bridges between critical knowledge, ethics and the democratization of knowledge
By JEAN MARC VON DER WEID: The double challenge of oil: while the world faces supply shortages and pressure for clean energy, Brazil invests heavily in pre-salt
By ELIAKIM FERREIRA OLIVEIRA & & OTTO CRESPO-SANCHEZ DA ROSA: Tribute to the recently deceased USP professor of philosophy of science
By MARCIO JOSE MENDONCA: Necropolitics and its killing techniques in the contemporary world based on drones with biopolitical methods that operate through algorithms of racial distinction
By HERALDO CAMPOS: “I am not poor, I am sober, with light luggage. I live with just enough so that things do not steal my freedom.” (Pepe Mujica)
By SERGIO AMADEU DA SILVEIRA: Fernando Haddad wants to attract data centers, but he doesn’t question who will control our data. Without chips, its own infrastructure or alliances with BRICS, Brazil deepens its dependence in the AI era
By TARSUS GENUS: The hegemonic dispute has migrated to digital control and the financialization of the State, with global actors and local elites eroding democracy in favor of private interests
By CAMILO SOARES: The lack of affection in a dehumanized gaze leads us to a dangerously smooth and predictable, generalist and idiotic world.
By KARIN BRÜNING: The correlation between Generation Z, Millennials and the increasing use of robots – a future in the making
