A ocupação e a produção de espaços biopotentes em Belo Horizonte: entre rastros e emergências

Abstract

With this dissertation we sought to investigate possible contributions of the event The Occupation in engendering paths to the emergence, in the context of Belo Horizonte, of biopotent spaces - or modes of spacialization that potentially escape urban logics grounded in the reproduction of capitalistic accumulation modes. The occupation took place in July 2013 in the area of the Viaduto Santa Tereza. Articulated in networks, collaboratively and independently, the event set a tangle of processes, fed by both the political-aesthetic experimentations that have historically occupied the area, and the new tactics arisen within the street protests that took place in the city in June 2013. To seek clues, within the act, to the emergency of such type of urban spaces, a methodological challenge was imposed at the outset: it was necessary to find ways which wouldnt empty the act of the multiplicity and permeability in which we bet precisely resided his biopotent character. For this, we used the idea of cartography, as proposed by Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze in their "Thousand Plateaus" (1995), and divided the work into three axis. Though successive, these were constructed to configure intersecting planes. If the first included an investigation about the idea of cartography and highlights possible investigative tracks to be used along the route, the second proceeds to a screening work of the various actors and processes that, crosswise, set the complex and multifaceted environment of A Ocupação. With that, our aim was to build a procedural, diagrammatic and crossed narrative, whereby the thickness of the act's experience could be present. From the resonance field then generated, emerged a series of connections, that although ephemeral, changing and continuously traded, seemed to present themselves as possible nodes between the composition of the phenomenon and the engendering of biopotent spaces in the context of the city. Such emergencies were retaken in a more detailed form in the third and final axis.