Through the breaks: a critique of anti-Black reason

• Grant number: 25/06128-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2025
• End date: June 30, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Piason Natali
• Grantee: Marina de Godoy Magalhães Costa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Starting with a link between the conference "As pupilas da Universidade: O princípio de razão e a ideia da Universidade", conferred by Jacques Derrida in 1983, and the "re/de/composition" of the post enlightenment political architecture performed by Denise Ferreira da Silva, this research plans to investigate how the ethical figuration of the black body, forged in the colonial period, continues to echo nowadays, moving suspicious justifications for the scenes of racial violence. The scene of recognition between subject and object will be revisited from the movements of desire, raising questions that will operate as guides for the speculation of other forms of cognition. Staying in the gaps of the western ontology, the research aims to speculate and experiment other forms of language that acts in the movement, practicing a sort of theory that opens itself to the intermittency of time and life.