Uninhabited democracies
By EMILIO CAFASSI: The blank vote is no longer an eccentric gesture or a luxury reserved for the most exquisitely conscientious. It has become a massive phenomenon
02/06/2025
By EMILIO CAFASSI: The blank vote is no longer an eccentric gesture or a luxury reserved for the most exquisitely conscientious. It has become a massive phenomenon
By FRANCISCO PEREIRA DE FARIAS: Between 2003 and 2016, PT governments deepened state mediation in the service of capital, disguising collective bargaining as a 'social achievement' that, in practice, disciplined unions and guaranteed corporate profitability
By FELIPE CALABREZ: Trump 2.0: How a President Is Concentrating Power and Overthrowing American Democracy with a Pen in His Hand
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: From mercantilism to platform capitalism: how colonial violence, financial innovations and industrial revolutions shaped the capitalist system, without overcoming its exploitative essence
By LUIZ MARQUES: This is the century of the absurd, of necropolitics, of unhappy young people and the (desperate) search for a meaning that capitalism has stolen
By JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER: The Illusion of Liberal Democracy: How the US Financial Oligarchy Consolidated Its Class Power and Why the Left Insists on Not Seeing It
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 JALDES MENESES: The borders of the so-called Centrão are mobile and changing, covering, in practice, the entire conservative spectrum up to a center-left fringe
By LUIZ MARQUES: The conservative strategy consists of de-ideologizing decisions and polarized views in the equation “1% vs 99% of the population”, in line with the Occupy Wall Street Movement
By MARCELO GUIMARÃES LIMA: Excerpts from the author's Introduction to the newly published book
By ADALBERTO DA SILVA RETTO JR.: Will the open space of MASP be an inclusive or exclusionary space in some way? Will the community still be able to express itself there? Will the famous “void” continue to be free, in the broadest sense of the term?
By MARIA LIGIA COELHO PRADO: Foreword to Bernardo Ricupero's newly released book
By GILBERTO LOPES: Author's conversation with Salvador López Arnal about the recently released book
By DANIEL COSTA: In the contemporary political scene, both corruption and populism continue to be used as rhetorical weapons in partisan and ideological disputes.
By PERRY ANDERSON: Today we are still in a situation where a single dominant ideology governs most of the world. Resistance and dissent are far from dead, but they continue to lack systematic and uncompromising articulation.
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: Economic nationalists want to return to a mythical past marked by American industrial splendor, while the technological camp imagines a utopian future managed by artificial intelligence
By RONALDO TADEU DE SOUZA: Leo Strauss's interpretative stance is to affirm that a war against ordinary ways and the spirit that gives them moral support develops in the Machiavellian text.
By TARSUS GENUS: The public subjectivity that infests Eastern Europe, the United States and Germany, which to a greater or lesser extent affects Latin America, is not the cause of the rebirth of Nazism and Fascism.
By EMILIO CAFASSI: The blank vote is no longer an eccentric gesture or a luxury reserved for the most exquisitely conscientious. It has become a massive phenomenon
By FRANCISCO PEREIRA DE FARIAS: Between 2003 and 2016, PT governments deepened state mediation in the service of capital, disguising collective bargaining as a 'social achievement' that, in practice, disciplined unions and guaranteed corporate profitability
By FELIPE CALABREZ: Trump 2.0: How a President Is Concentrating Power and Overthrowing American Democracy with a Pen in His Hand
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: From mercantilism to platform capitalism: how colonial violence, financial innovations and industrial revolutions shaped the capitalist system, without overcoming its exploitative essence
By LUIZ MARQUES: This is the century of the absurd, of necropolitics, of unhappy young people and the (desperate) search for a meaning that capitalism has stolen
By JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER: The Illusion of Liberal Democracy: How the US Financial Oligarchy Consolidated Its Class Power and Why the Left Insists on Not Seeing It
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 JALDES MENESES: The borders of the so-called Centrão are mobile and changing, covering, in practice, the entire conservative spectrum up to a center-left fringe
By LUIZ MARQUES: The conservative strategy consists of de-ideologizing decisions and polarized views in the equation “1% vs 99% of the population”, in line with the Occupy Wall Street Movement
By MARCELO GUIMARÃES LIMA: Excerpts from the author's Introduction to the newly published book
By ADALBERTO DA SILVA RETTO JR.: Will the open space of MASP be an inclusive or exclusionary space in some way? Will the community still be able to express itself there? Will the famous “void” continue to be free, in the broadest sense of the term?
By MARIA LIGIA COELHO PRADO: Foreword to Bernardo Ricupero's newly released book
By GILBERTO LOPES: Author's conversation with Salvador López Arnal about the recently released book
By DANIEL COSTA: In the contemporary political scene, both corruption and populism continue to be used as rhetorical weapons in partisan and ideological disputes.
By PERRY ANDERSON: Today we are still in a situation where a single dominant ideology governs most of the world. Resistance and dissent are far from dead, but they continue to lack systematic and uncompromising articulation.
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: Economic nationalists want to return to a mythical past marked by American industrial splendor, while the technological camp imagines a utopian future managed by artificial intelligence
By RONALDO TADEU DE SOUZA: Leo Strauss's interpretative stance is to affirm that a war against ordinary ways and the spirit that gives them moral support develops in the Machiavellian text.
By TARSUS GENUS: The public subjectivity that infests Eastern Europe, the United States and Germany, which to a greater or lesser extent affects Latin America, is not the cause of the rebirth of Nazism and Fascism.
