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Before the Asphalt
Climate resilience for popular urbanizations
Cartographies of the Detour, with Mariana Alegre Escorza
What does it mean to imagine from the margins? Cartographies of the Detour is a format of brief yet meaningful interviews that seeks to balance critical depth with humanity, from a perspective situated in the South and for the South.
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Cartographies of the Detour
What does it mean to imagine from the margins? *Cartographies of the Detour* is a series of brief but meaningful interviews that seek to balance critical depth with humanity, always from a perspective rooted in the Global South and for the Global South.
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The Crisis of Imagination and the News: What Futures Are Possible?
The news influences the way we see and perceive the world. The stories it tells have an impact on our decisions and help shape possible futures.
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The Right to Education and Linguistic Justice in Indigenous Communities
Education and linguistic justice are two fundamental human rights for any social group and, above all, for members of the world’s indigenous groups, most of whom have faced colonization and linguicide (linguistic extermination) since the implementation of…
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The hand that moves the pen
On Handwriting, Language Models, and Literary Practice: Some Notes on Mario Levrero’s Novel *El discurso vacío*. What Can the Uruguayan Author Tell Us About Creative Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?
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Linguistic Justice and the Pluriversal Turn
The question of what schools are for has never been more urgent. In an era marked by deepening social inequalities, ecological precariousness, and the persistent legacies of colonialism, educational institutions find themselves at a crossroads. They can reproduce the…
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Cartographies of the Detour
What does it mean to imagine from the margins? *Cartographies of the Detour* is a series of brief but meaningful interviews that seek to balance critical depth with humanity, always from a perspective rooted in the Global South and for the Global South.
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Amazofuturism
A Brief Overview of Utopias in the Tropical Forest By Aliza Yanes Since the term was coined in 2019 to describe a movement in the visual arts that originated in Brazil, the concept of Amazofuturism has taken root in that country as a subgenre of science fiction literature and raises interesting questions: how is the future of this region conceived aesthetically, and who
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Knowledge is distributed
Afrofuturism, Artificial Intelligence, and Community By Antoinette Torres Soler I was introduced to Afrofuturism through a short story by Du Bois. “The Comet,” one of his lesser-known stories, imagines a catastrophe that devastates New York and leaves, for a moment, a Black man and a white woman alive. In that moment of apocalypse, the Black man can be human. He can have a human relationship. He can ex
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Cartographies of the Detour
What does it mean to imagine from the margins? *Cartographies of the Detour* is a series of brief yet meaningful interviews that seek to balance critical depth with humanity, always from a perspective rooted in the Global South and for the Global South. While many imagine the future by looking forward, Peruvian artist Chonon Bensho does so by looking back. In her work, dreams, ancestral designs—
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