Public policies
October 3, 2026Have you ever stopped to think that your daily life is shaped, all the time, by decisions you did not make? The bus that arrives…
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Texts that inhabit the boundary between academic research, science communication, and personal experience—where writing begins even before the manuscript itself.
Systems and Libraries
September 24, 2026Have you ever stopped to think about what it would be like to find a specific item in a library that holds over 184 million…
An embroidered system
September 10, 2026Let’s do a small exercise. Imagine cross-stitch as an analog computational system, not because embroidery is literally a computer, but because some of its characteristics…
Hermes: the archetype of the messenger
September 2, 2026Throughout history, different peoples have imagined a figure capable of doing what few can: crossing boundaries. Hermes, Mercury, Thoth, Turms, Nabu, Exu, different names and…
Pallas, memory and thought
August 22, 2026Some time ago, I began studying astrology as a tool for self-knowledge. I like astrology because it offers images for thinking about ourselves, much like…
While the journal reviews, the world changes
July 24, 2026There is a curious feeling that accompanies those who do research in areas linked to technology. You write about the present knowing that, when the…
July 8: Researcher and Science Day in Brazil
July 8, 2026July 8 brings together two important celebrations: National Science Day and National Scientific Researcher Day. The date honors the founding of the Brazilian Society for…
The forest is not virgin (and never was)
July 5, 2026When we think of the Amazon, what comes to mind? Dense forest. Giant trees. Untouched nature, far from human presence. For a long time, that…
Speaking of serpents…
April 29, 2026Previously, I wove some reflections on the cyclical nature of becoming and on one of the images that fascinates me most when I think about…
Is becoming cyclical?
April 22, 2026It depends. When we speak of becoming, we are speaking of transformation, but transformation does not mean a straight path. Many processes in life return…
What is becoming?
April 20, 2026Devenir is a word describing a concept coined by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to characterize a way of thinking about processes of change. It…