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Oh, Love, Where Are You?

Why do we only invoke love when talking about the economy, culture and society? Why do we forget poems, books and verses?

Music is a cornerstone of the Amazonian "caboclo" culture that records knowledge of the environment and local know-how.

What happens when the past never completely disappears, but is recycled into new formats?

The transformative power of rave culture is not limitless, yet it must be defended from appropriation by reactionary forces.

A new type of dependency is emerging in which digital infrastructures replicate the old colonial logics.

The practice of spirituality is key to facing the profound eco-social transition in which we are currently immersed.

The idea of conferring legal personhood on ecosystems offers the possibility of justice in a world no longer dominated by human omnipotence.

Queer archaeologies seek to question and subvert the discipline’s normative discourses.

Brazil’s indigenous peoples are shaking off Western ideas of the future to preserve and create worlds in the present.

Words not only explain and order the material dimension of reality, they also construct the world.

The internet functions as a global structure of governance and control that influences politics, culture, the economy and spatial organisation.

A look at the future of the rural class and the difficulties involved in sustaining a way of life and of understanding the world.