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Cesta de Frutas
English version. Existem muitas formas de dimensionar o tempo. Além dos minutos e segundos, horas, dias, semanas, tem as manhãs, tardes e noites, e as estações, e os bimestres ou semestres escolares, e os quatro anos entre cada eleição, Olimpíada e Copa do Mundo. Quantas refeições em família, quantos cafés com amigos, quantas vezes pegamos o mesmo ônibus indo para…
Fruit Basket — how to make yourself a home
Versão em Português. There are multiple ways to measure time. Besides the minutes and seconds, hours, days, weeks, there are mornings, evenings and late nights, and seasons, and school terms, and the four years between elections, the Summer Olympic games and the World Cup. How many family meals, how many coffees we had with friends, how many times we took…
Uncommon Side Effects
Written between late-June, 2021 and early-Feb/2022. People rarely get the chance to acknowledge when something life-changing is about to happen, but somehow, when I picked up “Down and Out in Paris and London” for the first time a few years ago, I knew I wouldn’t be the same after reading it. I had just returned from the UK, and I…
The ‘Space’ in ‘Cyberspace’ & the Sociability of the Bridge: Introductory Notes
This past week, news of Elon Musk’s impending acquisition of Twitter threw me into a bunch of readings, and conversations, regarding the platform. All of these eventually made me realise that it was about time I published something about my own work. I’ve been poring over the intersection of Twitter, Fan Communities and Place-making since early 2019, shortly after I…
O que encontramos do outro lado das ondas
English version here. Anos depois de lançar Rubber Soul (1965) com os Beatles, John Lennon contou que a faixa “In My Life” foi a primeira que ele “conscientemente” escreveu a respeito da própria vida. Até aquele momento, as letras das músicas que escrevia eram apenas peças secundárias do processo de construção pop, ainda que ele fosse pessoalmente fascinado, desde a…
Psiu, você tem um segredo ou um fardo que não pode contar?
Hey, have you got a secret or a burden you can’t share?