Circulation · September 2026
Publishing does not bring things to an end.
What changes when a book no longer belongs only to the table where it was made.
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Ideas ignite.
Stories endure.
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One book can already leave this table.
Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge is the first available piece of a wider practice linking historical research, images and writing. The Brazilian print edition is in English, with 64 pages and colour printing.
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Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge
Historical research, poems and images meet in a book about care, risk and knowledge. How do people and institutions carry on when protocols can no longer contain experience?
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Place of publication · September 2026
From where does this table look at the world?
Belo Horizonte is more than the address in the colophon. It is also a point of view.
Read the essayForm · September 2026
Empty space is also an editorial decision.
Margins, distance, pause and hierarchy also organise a reading.
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The Environments of Technology
An accepted session co-organised and commented by Maria Carolina Fóscolo on infrastructure, materiality, evidence and expertise.
OpenThe research continues beyond the books.
Archives, public health, science, place and public history feed the catalogue. The site shows questions and routes of circulation without publishing manuscripts that are still unpublished.
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Health and institutions
How do institutions learn when health crises exceed protocols, routines and ready-made categories?
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Science and classification
How does a virus collected in the Amazon become comparable, nameable and recognisable across international scientific networks?
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Environment and infrastructure
Where does the forest end when ecology, surveillance and public-health infrastructure begin producing evidence together?
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Research, poetry, essays and images: explore our books and work in preparation.
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Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge
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Historical research, poems and images meet in a book about care, risk and knowledge. How do people and institutions carry on when protocols can no longer contain experience?
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Book I · A matéria aprende a respirar
An aircraft goes around. Glass retains stresses after the fire. A sheet bends before becoming a book. Thirteen poems and three literary chronicles explore what changes when the conditions for continuing change.
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Editorial choices, reading notes and relationships between images. Follow how books take shape.
Circulation · September 2026
Publishing does not bring things to an end.
What changes when a book no longer belongs only to the table where it was made.
Read the essayPlace of publication · September 2026
From where does this table look at the world?
Belo Horizonte is more than the address in the colophon. It is also a point of view.
Read the essayForm · September 2026
Empty space is also an editorial decision.
Margins, distance, pause and hierarchy also organise a reading.
Read the essayEnter through a theme
The archive can also be crossed through recurring questions and subjects, not only by page type.
One idea meets another
Books, images and questions keep changing when they meet a reader. Explore the reflections that accompany our editorial work.
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