This article What if Rick Sanchez were real? What if his absolute freedom, indifference to pain, and refusal of relational ties were not narrative exaggerations but extreme manifestations of a subjectivity already at work? This article adopts speculative fiction as a philosophical methodology (Uckelman, 2024) to interpret the animated series Rick and Morty as a critical allegory of radicalized neoliberalism. The central hypothesis is that Rick does not embody a dysfunctional individual, but rather the systemic effect of an ontopolitical regime that dissolves the commons in the name of total autonomy. Structured in four interlinked sections, the article begins with freedom as its foundational axis and explores its consequences: the erosion of social bonds, necropolitics as the management of the disposable, algorithmic technogovernance of experience, and comedy as an anesthetic for collapse. Rather than satire, the series offers a speculative mirror — a philosophical experiment that compels us to confront the implications of freedom detached from recognition of the other. This is not a moralizing reading nor a conventional sociological critique, but a conceptual intervention: Rick and Morty does not project a dystopia — it reconfigures the present. If Rick persists, it is because his logic already inhabits us. And perhaps the most unsettling question is not “What if Rick were real?”, but “What if we already were Rick?”

This article analyzes Érico Veríssimo's novel Incidente em Antares as a strong critique of Brazilian authoritarianism, particularly within the context of the Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964–1985). Using a historical-literary approach, the study contextualizes the novel’s publication during the politically repressive Médici government and explores the surprising fact that the book was released without censorship. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Lilia Schwarcz, the article examines the structural roots of Brazilian authoritarianism, focusing on patriarchy, coronelismo, and systemic violence. It highlights key characters such as Quitéria Campolargo and Erotildes, representing the oppressive elite and marginalized social groups, respectively. Finally, the article presents an alternative hypothesis for the book’s uncensored release: the possibility that the novel’s ending—where social order is restored and the dead's denunciations are silenced—was perceived by the military authorities as a symbolic validation of their own triumph over subversion. The article argues that Incidente em Antares remains a valuable literary source for understanding historical forms of authoritarianism in Brazil.

Between 1953 and 1956, Erico Verissimo served as Director of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Pan-American Union, under the Organization of American States (OAS).This experience placed him at the intersection of a complex diplomatic game between the United States and Latin America during the Cold War.This article offers a critical reading of Verissimo's speeches from that period, informed by the concept of ideology developed in A Expresso da Ideologia (Fauri, 2007), to show how the writer articulated a humanistic idealism in tension with Pan-American diplomacy.The analysis argues that by transferring his literary ethics into the political sphere, Verissimo transformed diplomatic discourse into a form of symbolic resistance, mediating between institutional rhetoric and an emancipatory vision of culture and freedom.

Portuguese language is characterized by an optionality between building a clause with a personal pronoun as subject (eu comprei um livro – I bought a book) and building it without pronominal subject (comprei um livro – I bought a book). In the history of Brazilian Portuguese (BP), a typical linguistic change is the progressive increase in the use of the first option, in opposition to the second one. This paper is part of a broader research project whose purpose is to investigate whether such change has been influenced by social factors. In this context, the article aims to analyze if, in BP, in the 19th century, the variation between expression and non-expression of pronominal subjects is influenced by social variables. The analysis addresses the following variables: education, stage of life, social class, gender/sex. The theoretical framework is an articulation among Variationist Sociolinguistics, Historical Sociolinguistics and Functional Discourse Grammar. The paper is based on variationist methodology, and it uses a corpus that is composed of Brazilian theatre plays produced in the 19th century. The results suggest that the variables education and stage of life are relevant: higher levels of education and the second stage of life maintain higher rates of non-expression of subject.

This article has as its main objective to analyze the ways in which coronelismo is represented in the novel Herança de Sangue: um faroeste brasileiro, published in 2012, by the contemporary author Ivan Sant'anna. Therefore, we methodologically base ourselves on bibliographical research regarding the concepts relevant to the research. Thus, the final phase of the research had as its methodology the articulation between theoretical readings and the analysis of the novel. In Herança de Sangue, there is a reconstitution of part of the history of the city of Catalão in Goiás. It is noticed that the coronelismo portrayed in the novel has similarities with what was portrayed in other literary works and that the author deepens in the treatment of these issues, in addition to mentioning aspects concerning coronelismo that are less present in historiography and literature, such as the private life of colonels, their relationship with violence and the existence of outstanding women in the context of coronelismo.

Este artigo é resultado de uma pesquisa em andamento no curso de doutorado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguagem e Ensino da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande. O trabalho tem como objetivo abordar uma proposta de ensino de leitura crítica a partir de fontes primárias de arquivo no ensino superior. Para tanto, foi aplicado um questionário sociocultural aos alunos de graduação do curso de História da referida instituição e utilizamos Bakhtin (2010, 2011) como suporte teórico, bem como estudos de Araújo (2020, 2021), Marques (2023, 2024), Argemí (2019) e outros pesquisadores diante de um cenário preocupante em que o fenômeno da desinformação tem se destacado no século XXI. Os resultados apontaram para a necessidade de aprofundamento do estudo das leituras críticas e discursivas na formação de professores, levando em consideração a demanda por pesquisas e leituras desenvolvidas na academia pelos alunos.

Neste artigo, fazemos uma análise do filme Los silencios (Brasil-Colômbia-França, 2019), a partir da proposta do Jornalismo Mágico sugerida por Herscovitz (2004). Compreendemos que a ambiguidade textual presente na obra se assemelha à intersecção entre ficção/realidade constatada por Herscovitz (2004) no trabalho jornalístico do escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, que mescla elementos do Realismo Mágico com o Jornalismo Literário. Validamos nossa percepção a partir da apresentação de elementos encontrados no conteúdo e na linguagem identificados no objeto investigado.

Este trabalho é sustentado pelos pressupostos teóricos de Bakhtin e o Círculo, representados por Volóchinov (2018; 2019), Medviédev (2018) e Bakhtin (2003; 2014; 2016), acerca das relações dialógicas, geralmente nominadas como dialogismo, e dos pesquisadores difusores da Análise Dialógica do Discurso (ADD), como Sobral e Giacomelli (2016; 2018) e Sobral (2019). Assim, este estudo envolve a análise de dois enunciados – charges – que foram veiculados na rede social Instagram, e (re)publicados no Facebook, em uma página de divulgação pertencente ao Skoob, o qual também é uma rede social, brasileira, destinada a leitores. Objetiva-se compreender como as charges selecionadas refletem e refratam valores sociais em relação às práticas leitoras nesses distintos contextos socioculturais. A metodologia segue um viés qualitativo, orientado pela ADD. Levam-se em consideração os processos envoltos no discurso, a partir dos enunciados concretos e das valorações que deles podem ser suscitadas. Logo, nos movimentos analíticos, busca-se compreender melhor a face leitora da sociedade brasileira.

Este artículo propone un enfoque de enseñanza y aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras basado en la interacción discursiva. Es de una investigación preliminar sobre la conveniencia de usar herramientas y conceptos de la narratología y de la semántica estructural para la creación de materiales didácticos a partir de prácticas discursivas. Para ello se contextualizan los orígenes del estudio del discurso, ligados tanto a la lingüística estructural como a la teoría de la literatura, con autores como Roland Barthes (1966), Greimas (1987), Todorov (1974), quienes llevaron a cabo una revisión de conceptos fundacionales del formalismo ruso y del estructuralismo para aplicarlos al análisis estructural del relato y, con el tiempo, al discurso en general. A continuación, se explica el modelo interactivo de comprensión de Kintsch y Van Dijk (1983), que pone el foco del análisis en la interpretación del discurso, un proceso que, si bien es individual y eminentemente cognitivo, está también orientado socioculturalmente. De acuerdo a este modelo, se defiende el uso de un aprendizaje estratégico por parte de los aprendices en la (des)codificación de textos para conseguir la activación de sus conocimientos previos e integrar las nuevas informaciones en la Memoria a Largo Plazo (MLP).