A flock of entities: what swarms the performance of streamers in the June Journeys (2013)
The space of manifestations entangled with those of June 2013 in Brazil was enlivened by mediators who had cyborg bodies,, provisionally in the sense of Lemos (2013). Each time the hybrids cry, we are asked to think about the specifcity of what we understand as human nature. For Latour (1994) one mu...
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| Language: | English |
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Pontíficia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Galáxia |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.pucsp.br/galaxia/article/view/32504 |
| Summary: | The space of manifestations entangled with those of June 2013 in Brazil was enlivened by mediators who had cyborg bodies,, provisionally in the sense of Lemos (2013). Each time the hybrids cry, we are asked to think about the specifcity of what we understand as human nature. For Latour (1994) one must give back to the human the other half of himself: the part of things. What, then, is the human made of? Machines, objects, politics,, religion, economy, nature; in a tumultuous and not at all deterministic conversation. Wild and fickle.. The body of the streamer, as part of the protests tuned with the June days, would be a prototype of this constitution. What agencies this flock of entities? To what extent does this body transgress itself in pursuit of the other that is not the same - although it is by nature? |
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| ISSN: | 1519-311X 1982-2553 |