Language as Poetry and Drama According to Benedito Nunes (original) (raw)

Seismic Cyst: Vilém Flusser’s Journalistic Philosophical Quasi-Poetry and Oswald de Andrade’s Telefonemas in the Corpus of Brazilian Philosophy

Flusser Studies, 2020

This paper relates Vilém Flusser's and Oswald de Andrade's philosophical approaches by examining and comparing Flusser's quasi-poetical way of writing philosophy in newspapers articles of the 1960s with de Andrade's Telefonema, newspapers articles of the 1940s and 1950s. It is analyzed their supposedly minor texts, setting the principle that the manifestos and the large theoretical novels that both composed could be present as a horizon of analysis. If it was to work with minor authors within a minor philosophy, it would be necessary to go even more to the micro. The purpose was to follow the fleeting traces of their literary-philosophical machines and their (dis)articulation with (neo)colonial powers. The assumption is that there is a similarity in the way they deal with the question of otherness, which is manifest in the approach that they do towards philosophy, literature and journalistic activity. They not only share several criticism and frustrations about the philosophical program that was intended to be established in Brazil but are also to be seen as exploring the boundaries between thought and literature, announcing and expecting philosophies to come.

Philosophical and literary interrelationships in “Poemas novos”, by Rubens Rodrigues Torres Filho (Atena Editora)

Philosophical and literary interrelationships in “Poemas novos”, by Rubens Rodrigues Torres Filho (Atena Editora), 2022

This text seeks to point out certain aspects and procedures that enable a dialogue between horizons of lyrical creation and certain active forces of skeptical philosophy (NUNES; 2010; KRAUSE, 2004; BRITO, 2013), especially in the compositions arranged in the set of “Poemas novos”, by Rubens Rodrigues Torres Filho (1997). In association with this purpose, the metacritical study (COMPAGNON, 2001; TODOROV, 2015) of texts from the reception stands out, which highlight the skeptical and ironic bent of the poet's lyrical creation. Among them, the examinations carried out by Viviana Bosi (2004) on the ways in which the ironic procedure and the skeptical perspective interact together with the attitude of the poetic subject in a horizon of historical narrowing, or, then, in interrelation with the understanding of reality. and the world associated with the creative process of composition, seen by Isabela Gaglianone (2013). Thus, it is emphasized that poems such as “in the beginning” and “praise of the hollow” provide, simultaneously, movements of contention of acquiescence and of compositional expansion.

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF DEATH AND LIFE OF A SEVERINO: THE ARGUMENTATION WITH THINGS BY JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO, THE POET OF REASON? (Atena Editora)

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF DEATH AND LIFE OF A SEVERINO: THE ARGUMENTATION WITH THINGS BY JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO, THE POET OF REASON? (Atena Editora), 2022

The aim of this work is to Analyse the argumentation in the play Death and Life of a Severino, in order to verify if there are elements in this process that justify the discourse that João Cabral de Melo Neto is the poet of reason, sustained by critics, scholars and by the writer himself in several interviews. As method of investigation, it is used some key concepts of French Discourse Analysis, such as discourse, interdiscourse, discursive formation, ideological formation and imaginary formations, which we discuss and apply to three parts of Death and Life of a Severino. Notwithstanding the diferences concerning the meaning of reason among several rationalist philosophers, it was taken as a platonic idea, position antidiscursive at first. The interpretation of the corpus reveals the interpellation of irrationalist discursive formations, for logos (reason, word) shows itself inefficient both to describe and to argue in the most famous opus of the Pernambucan poet. The solution for such impotence is using concrete things as proof.

A política e a poética do coletivo Frente Três de Fevereiro

Pós. Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP

O presente artigo analisa as ações anti-racismo “Monumento Horizontal” (2004), intervenção urbana realizada na cidade de São Paulo, e “Bandeiras” (2005), série de bandeiras abertas em diversas partidas de futebol. Ambas foram realizadas pelo coletivo Frente Três de Fevereiro, grupo paulistano de arte e ativismo surgido com o intuito de combater o racismo estrutural. Partindo de entrevistas realizadas com o grupo, procuramos compreender o “caráter poético” atribuído ao ativismo do coletivo, sublinhando de que modo ele emerge a contrapelo de concepções políticas baseadas na comunicação. Para tal, mobilizamos os subsídios teóricos de Jacques Rancière, amparados por autores como Jean-Luc Nancy, Silvio Almeida e Judith Butler. Assim, tomamos a “poética” como via de acesso para compreender, no âmbito das estratégias políticas do coletivo, o entrelaçamento entre a noção de dissenso e a ideia de acontecimento, tal como pensada por Jacques Rancière e Michel Foucault. Por fim, justapomos as e...