Search Lines

1. Contemporary Poetics
If the problematic horizon of the program is the cultural transformations of the last sixty years, one of the ways of facing it is to probe, on the one hand, the reconfiguration of traditional practices through the incorporation of new elements (artistic-cultural) and, on the other, the production (invention) of new ways of doing that can result in the introduction of new practices. The Line takes the term “poetics” in the broad sense of “creation”, “formation”, attributed to the Greek word poiésis, not restricting it to artistic practice, without discarding it, however. It relies on the concept of autopoiésis, of the Chileans Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, to designate the capacity of living beings – and the groups they constitute – to produce themselves continuously. This line welcomes research on the new ways of making artistic and symbolic individuals and groups – their poetics – in contemporary society favoring Latin American practices and thoughts.

2. Contemporary Episteme
Without ignoring the episteme of other historical moments such as ancient Greece, when it was believed to be a truth, and the Modern Age with its commitment to the possibility of knowledge of nature, supported by the imperative of technique, the Line houses studies on the diversity of epistemological proposals that emerged especially from the 20th century, putting on the scene other possibilities of knowledge, characterized by decolonial criticism, in particular that which refers to Latin America.

3. Communication and Cultural Mediations
This line of research covers projects that aim at the effects of meaning in communication processes, taking social and cultural practices as communication and social linking practices. From an interdisciplinary perspective, communication is understood here in its social, political and cultural dynamics, in order to receive research related to contemporary themes, such as cyber culture, communication rites, folk communication, media culture, among other denominations that constitute the field of knowledge. In the context of technological transformations and different experiences of modernity, it stimulates investigations on interaction and interactivity, consumption processes, media and hypermedia productions, artistic and cultural, among others, observing emphatically the current scenarios in Brazil and Latin America.