Pensamento circular : contracolonialidade e pertencimento

Abstract

This thesis proposes to highlight and affirm the epistemological traits present in Afro-pindoramic cosmologies, taking as a reference the circular and organic thinking reissued by Nego Bispo. Historically, modern Western reason has denied epistemic legitimacy to this knowledge and its subjects. Nego Bispo suggests that these are the questions that teach us. Thus, our learning is guided by the following question: what is the relevance of organic thinking as reissued by Nego Bispo for contemporary times, given that it reissues countercoloniality not as a methodology or theory, but as a manifestation, as a way of life, whether in the sciences or in intersubjective and institutional relations, since it is guided by the circularity of ancestral thinking? The hypothesis guiding this research is that Nego Bispo's thinking reconfigures possibilities for the constitution of a circular, organic and Afro-pindoramic sociology, by emphasizing the epistemological background of these cosmologies and straining the limits of Western epistemology. Methodologically, the research followed an Afro-diasporic “epistemic path”, using bibliographic, viodeographic and oralographic review tools, converging with productions by Afro-pindoramic black and indigenous people, and transfluencing with productions by Afro-diasporic black and indigenous people from other territories. Analyzing the trajectory of Nego Bispo, I defend the category of “belonging” as the home of the epistemological contours of his thought, and it becomes a source from which the epistemic foundation of diverse individuals, groups and peoples flows, as well as a source that restores the cosmological bases and ways of life that were made precarious by colonialism. Therefore, belonging is the catalyst for diversity and the source of epistemic pluri-diversity in the academic-scientific space. This pluri-diverse path will be traced like the flight of a carcará, in other words, circular writing, which aims to break formality, linearity and the rhythm of Western academic writing, thus performing countercoloniality as a manifestation and organic defense that opposes and weakens the synthetic, while at the same time restoring the organicity of people and knowledge. It is therefore a new, diverse and counter-colonial epistemological proposal, staging ruptures and encouraging other ways of doing and feeling the sciences. Following the flow of ancestral wisdom, by highlighting the epistemological fruits of circular thinking, the research returns to its beginnings, to the diverse belongings necessary for a cosmic and biointeractive relationship that is constitutive and maintains the life of everything that is alive, and everything has life and spirit.