Ailton Krenak, 67 anos, balança o braço esquerdo no ar, enquanto diz: “Um voo de um pássaro no céu, um instante depois que ele passou, não há rastro nenhum”. Uma das lideranças indígenas da tribo dos Krenak, às margens do Rio Doce, em Minas Gerais, está certo de que a passagem humana na Terra, ao contrário do voo dos pássaros, deixa rastros de destruição. Por isso, ele sempre pensa formas de adiar o fim do mundo.  

Ailton Krenak é o primeiro entrevistado da série Vozes da Floresta - A aliança dos Povos da Floresta de Chico Mendes a nossos dias.

"Vamos ver como que a gente vai seguir daqui pra frente com o ataque contra a floresta e contra o povo da floresta, contra a própria ideia da florestania. Se o legado da Aliança dos Povos da Floresta ainda é capaz de criar alguma potência transformadora", disse Ailton.

Nesta entrevista ele fala sobre a ideia da Aliança para os dias de hoje, o que é ser índio no Brasil, a ideia de resgate e identidade, a importância da memória, o modo de gestão territorial indígena, a relação dos movimentos sociais com a política institucional e as contradições e desafios que o atual momento histórico coloca a todos os brasileiros.

Some suggestions for anthropology PhD students who face having to conduct their ethnography entirely online because they are unable to visit their fieldsite. /via @JanetGunter

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously branded Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” back in 2001.

Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway's film Kuannersuit / Kvanefjeld portrays the conflicts facing the small community of Narsaq in southern Greenland. Narsaq is located next to the pristine Kvanefjeld mountain; site of one of the richest rare earth mineral resources deposits in the world, and one of the largest sources of uranium. For generations the farming near Kvanefjeld has been Greenland’s only agricultural industry. This way of life may soon be threatened, as Greenland considers foreign investments in an open pit mine that could become one of the largest uranium and rare earth extraction operations in the world. Autogena and Portway’s film portrays a community divided on the issue of uranium mining. It explores the difficult decisions and trade-offs faced by a culture seeking to escape a colonial past and define its own identity in a globalised world.

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Shadowing gives memory to city lights, enabling them to record and play back the shadows of those who passed underneath

When I walk, I get inspired by the things that I find in the street. So I’m just walking and collecting. I don’t have high-class friends. Because people know me as the person who just collects things on the street. People feel ashamed when they are with me. When you collect in the street, you look like a street boy or madman.

The project will investigate how cultural variation in practical ethics and norms of repair might impact on the interpretation, implementation and contestation of the ideas of a circular and bio-based (CBB) economy.

Through a series of study visits, interviews and other deliberative engagements with practitioners and theorists of repair, it will undertake a discursive and deliberative exploration of practical ethics and norms of repair in contrasting disciplines and cultures, focusing on the prevalence and significance of ethics of care and legibility. It will compare and contrast the interpretations, values and norms revealed in repair practices of restoration, reconstruction, remediation, reconciliation and reconfiguration with those found in CBB economy policy and promotion, so as to derive lessons and recommendations for the effective development of such policy from a better understanding of the normative motivations and constraints influencing repair practices.

Em uma versão cyberpunk do Rio, Heitor é um jornalista fracassado que vive de postar notícias-Gif, mas sonha em finalmente conseguir uma grande reportagem. Quando ele encontra um misterioso HD com informações que poderiam comprometer a corporação Intercom, Heitor começa uma investigação pelo submundo do Rio, mas este “jornalista” pode não estar preparado para os rumos que sua “história” irá tomar.