Jorge Holanda's thesis is a finalist of the Esocite.br Award

Researcher Jorge Holanda, linked to the UFRGS Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAs), is the finalist of the Esocite.br Theses, Dissertations and TCCs Award, promoted by the Brazilian Association of Social Studies of Sciences and Technologies. The award, held every two years, recognizes the best academic works in the field of social studies of science and technology in Brazil.

Jorge Netherlands Thesis

“aesthetics of a flat and stationary world: science, religion and conspiracism in the digital ecosystem Terraplanist”

guided by Professor Emerson Alessandro GIUMBELLI, the thesis analyzes the contemporary phenomenon of terralanism, prioritizing the understanding of forms through which the alleged evidence of this cosmological model is built, contrary to the consensus established by science.

work examines the role of a digital ecosystem of flat earth in the production and circulation of images, practices and discourses, which conform aesthetically aligned subjectivity with this alternative cosmology. The research also analyzes the arguments associated with the defense of a "science of truth," the literalist readings of the Bible and the conspiracy -based perspectives, revealing how such elements reinforce the legitimacy of terralanism in the contemporary digital environment.