Performing insurrections. Four cuir anthropophagic perspectives

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Behind shining screens, as Preciado says, we all have experienced new ways of neocolonial, technological, and subjective domination. Knowing that the obscure pixel era can also be the last one, it is urgent to set up alternative modes of resistance. This working group emerged from a theoretical and vital encounter with the Brazilian philosopher Suely Rolnik, who inspired us to focus on combating the pimping of life, reclaiming transformative forces for inhabiting and thinking each other. From the 60s artworks and cultural scenario to nowadays, this panel rethinks relationships, objects, bodies, sameness, and otherness from four different cuir anthropophagic perspectives. Approaching insurrection from migrant, exiled, and cuir Southern subjectivities, our framework starts from the margins of the body and proposes a cannibal attitude of devouring, digesting, and expelling new ways of living, thinking, and producing worlds.

Sub Track

• Otros Saberes and Alternative Methods

Session Organizer

• Maiara Knihs

Chair

• Josy Panão

Discussant

• Josy Panão

Individual Presentations

• Arquitectura del vaivén: Diasporic Building(s) in Central America’s Northern Triangle and Anthropophagic Subjectivity - Gabriela Poma, Harvard University

• Como as coisas da casa: the undomesticated body in Clarice Lispector and Lygia Clark - Maiara Knihs

• Cuir cannibalism - Cristina Morales Saro

• O cú do canibal: rethinking relationships in the contemporary world through a repositioning of the anthropophagic subject’s abject anus - Ana Belén Ávalos Abril