Sob o pavimento, a floresta: cidade e cosmopolítica

Abstract

The potential forest that exists under each city and the human and non-human collectives that rexist them, as well as the anthropologies they engender, are the subjects of this thesis. To this end, it proposes to review the structuring dualisms of modernity and its (self)colonial presuppositions, the founding anthropocentric character of the modes of fabrication of the environment built in Brazil and the people of commodity’s way of inhabiting. Design, the hegemonic method of producing human artifacts, the city, the spatial product of this process, urbanization, extensive accumulation of the Western mode of existence, and the Anthropocene, the era in which human design became a geological force, are confronted by their multiple reverse images that proliferate in and through indigenous cinemas. Starting from the methodological possibilities of multispecies ethnography, epistemological possibilities of multinaturalist perspectivism and cosmopolitics possibilities of indigenous cinemas, this thesis further investigates the possibilities of an anthropological intrusion at the heart of Applied Social Sciences, and investigates the potential of a projective anthropology in which the project – “onto-epistemological device” – is twisted by relationships and the social is expanded beyond humans. Finally, it speculates about forms of native alterity and extramodern spaces, other stories than positivist mononaturalism, regressive utopias, and the standoff of design in the ruins of progress, wondering the sensitive materiality of a future of rexistances, afroindigenizations, counter-colonizations, resurgences, and confluences.