From the lab coat to the algorithm: the new face of eugenics.
Over 80% of people killed by police interventions are black.
Alexandre Machado Rosa
Alexandre Machado Rosa is a professor at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP) and holds a doctorate in Public Health.
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University, science and democracy: Fernando de Azevedo and the creation of USP.
Fernando de Azevedo played a central role in defending a university model based on scientific research and humanistic education.
Counting Brazil in order to govern it: Fernando de Azevedo, the census, and the invention of national culture.
The First Republic left behind a deeply unequal country.
When the body became politics: Physical Education in the "elites'" project for the modernization of Brazil.
Physical Education is a gateway to culture.
The cultural decline of Brazil's ruling classes: ideology, bad faith, and abandonment of the historical project.
The ruling classes chose to abandon culture, critical thinking, and symbolic mediation. They chose an impoverished present and a narrow future.
Why haven't countries announced a boycott of the World Cup in the US yet?
The answer lies not in the naiveté of governments, but in the loss of autonomy of football as a cultural phenomenon.
Work, time and servitude: why the 6x1 schedule needs to end.
The normalization of the 6x1 work schedule reveals how contemporary capitalism has transformed exhaustion into a virtue and free time into a privilege.
Work, time, and human development: the hijacking of leisure in a Brazil of inequalities.
In Brazil, labor relations are marked by structural racism.
Work as an educational principle. But what kind of work?
The social division of labor has never been merely a technical or economic arrangement.
The Federal Institutes and the silent struggle for the education of Brazilian youth.
Defending integrated secondary education as a form of education is also to update the liberal-democratic assertion: knowledge cannot be the monopoly of a few.
Knowledge in dispute: why does the university frighten so many?
In the 20th century, Brazil built something rare in the contemporary world: a public university network that dared to be national in a country marked by inequality.