A young Indigenous man relates his experience of moving away from his village for the first time to live in Altamira, one of the Amazon’s most heavily deforested cities
After proclaiming “to hell with this hellish life,” the author of Macunaíma sailed the Amazon and Madeira rivers “before saying enough already.” In his travel-diary-turned-book, emotions overflow and Nature overwhelms
In this interview, Ehuana Yaira talks about the indivisible relationship between the Forest and the female body. The Yanomami artist and writer was the first member of her people to give a public talk in Europe, as part of the series “Rainforest is Female,” held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Attributed to “K. Venkatesh, a former neural engineer turned forest monk.” The document is 147 pages long, formatted as a dialogue between a Buddhist nun and a recursive AI. The argument: Samsara (the cycle of birth and death) is the original algorithm. Enlightenment is simply the moment the observer stops feeding the system its own karma. It includes actual Python code for a “karmic debugger” alongside Pali chanting notations.
“This is just colonialism with a sans-serif font,” says Dr. Aliyah Moreno, a professor of digital humanities at the University of Oslo. “The Ancient Future PDF often cherry-picks ‘exotic’ wisdom from closed traditions—Tibetan Buddhism, Indigenous astronomy, West African divination—and repackages it for a Western tech audience that wants the thrill of mysticism without the accountability of lineage. It’s a mood board, not a revival.” ancient future pdf
The PDF (born in 1993) is the digital equivalent of stone. It is immutable. It does not change with a software update. It does not require an internet connection to render its soul. For the Ancient Future enthusiast, the PDF is a —a file format that will likely be readable by whatever remnants of civilization survive a cyber-collapse. It is the scroll of the server farm. Attributed to “K