Theory of Modernity

Departing from the definition of modernity, not exactly as a concept, but as a narrative category, it should be noted that it is not possible to speak strictly of a theory of modernity, but of several accounts of modernity. Based on the tradition of Foucault (ontology of ourselves, or archeology of the norm) and Agamben (archeology of the law), the objective is to situate modernity, as bioaesthetic, as the study of processes of contemporary symbolization. These are processes that signal the passage from the organic to the inorganic, from work to text, and from the action to the inoperative, having as axis the workings of imagination and its devices, which are by definition singular and plural, thus addressing itself to omnes et singulatim. This fact is an an-autonomic, post-foundational or post-utopian scenario, where there are no longer any (ideal) forms but (current) forces. These forces are called images.

Faculty:

ANA LUIZA ANDRADE
ANDREA SANTURBANO
ANDRÉ FIORUSSI
CARLOS EDUARDO SCHMIDT CAPELA
JAIR TADEU DA FONSECA
JORGE HOFFMANN WOLFF
LILIANA ROSA REALES
RAUL HECTOR ANTELO
LUZ RODRIGUEZ CARRANZA

Projects:

A gesta entre nós, tal gesto: disposições e dispositivos – Carlos Eduardo Schmidt Capela
A topologia da diferença II – Wladimir Antônio da Costa Garcia
Archivo Rubén Darío – AR.DOC – André Fiorussi
Convênio UFSC/Universidad de Cuyo – Jorge Hoffmann Wolff
Discursos supranacionais. Os textos além fronteiras. – Liliana Rosa Reales
Fundo de Dados Antonio Di Benedetto. – Liliana Rosa Reales
Os textos jornalísticos de Antonio Di Benedetto (1946-1976). – Liliana Rosa Reales
Otobiografias latino-americanas – Jorge Hoffmann Wolff
Palavra, morte e anacronismos nos arquivos literários da contemporaneidade – Andrea Santurbano
Para uma conceituação da bioestética – Raul Antelo
Arquivos – Liliana Rosa Reales