Por uma administração menor: cartografando vida de mulheres que dançam no Bailinho da Tia Naná e inventam outras velhices

Abstract

The present work sought to carry out a cartography of the inherent forces in the lives of women who dance at Aunt Nana’s Ball - a popular ballroom dance for the elderly, located in the city center of Belo Horizonte / MG. Understanding old age as a way of existing regardless of age, but one which speaks of a heightened sensitivity to the singularities, intensities and events of life (TOTORA, 2015), with these women we seek clues, tips, flashes of other ways of being and living together that stretch, expand and re-elaborate the conventional practices of the administrative universe - be it in their ways of thinking and producing knowledge or in their ways of tackling and organizing everyday life. Taking the joint work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as theoretical and methodological foundation, especially with regard to the books belonging to the collection A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, we draw up ten strength maps, within which we dialogue with the following themes: heteronormativity and the marriage institution; violations of the patriarchal social system and politics of location; color, intersectionality and possibilities for reinventing life; old age as a work of art; ballroom dancing at Aunt Naná's Bailinho; Aunt Naná's Bailinho and her ways of existing others; dance as forgetting; and learning along the way. In the face of such force fields, we seek to contribute to the construction of a smaller administration. Administration that stretches the thinking and performing of productive and reproductive social relations, so that they embrace the immanence of life, and thus, expand in attention and care the forces and forms of action hitherto unauthorized. Supported by the concept of minor literature developed by Deleuze and Guattari (1977), ordinary management elaborated by Alexandre Carrieri (2012, 2014) and by the concept of minor care defended by Luciana Oliveira (2020), we argue in favor of attentive administration with the power, the joy, the multiplicity, the complexity and the dependence inherent in the ways of organizing and composing the context of everyday lives.