Between Utopia and Colonization: Critical Imagination in Carta das Ilhas Andarilhas

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A dialética do racismo

The lives of the Black population in Brazil have been violated in various aspects and periods throughout history. Although racism is not the motivator of enslavement, it nevertheless becomes one of its worst consequences. That said, the capitalist mode of production corroborates and exploits the disparities caused by r...

Populismo, democracia e propriedade: uma entrevista com Mark Devenney

In this interview, the philosopher Mark Devenney, professor at the University of Brighton and co-director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (Cappe), discusses the scope and limits of populist theory within post-foundational and post-Marxist thought. He distinguishes populism from democracy and a...

Teatro de Formas Imaginadas

This article examines the paintings of Albert Eckhout in the context of the Dutch occupation of Brazil, analyzing how his images transformed Indigenous peoples into a central allegorical figure within the colonial imaginary. Grounded in a circumstantial realism and an aesthetic of verisimilitude, Eckhout established a...

The Politics of Mourning: Reliving Karbalāʾ in Performance and Fiction

This article studies the performance of mourning for the martyrs of Karbalāʾ as the commemorative and ritualized cultivation of grief as perpetual reminder of the possibility of commitment against injustice. It takes Ismat Chughtai’s (d. 1991) Urdu novel Ek Katrā Khūn or One Drop of Blood as exemplifying the narrative-...

Levinas and Aurobindo: Rebirth through Imprisonment

Abstract This paper examines how Emmanuel Levinas and Sri Aurobindo – writing under political captivity in a Nazi labor camp and a British colonial prison respectively – transfigured imprisonment into a site of ontological transformation. Employing critical realism and comparative hermeneutics, it treats their canonica...