Por uma transcrítica materialista: mapeando viragens em compromisso com um possível materialismo futuro

Abstract

This thesis contains the introduction to a broader research project (part 0) and the conclusion of its first stage, the detailed mapping of the materialist turn (part I). Committed to a possible future materialism, we initially set out to map three turns in the contemporary theoretical-critical-philosophical space: the material, ontological and speculative turns. Starting at this point, in the triple knot of a threefold turn, the initial effort was to trace the movements that gave rise to these turns, which led us to find three vectors: genderization, decolonisation and speculation. Still committed to the possibility of a future materialism, heir to the critical tradition (and to the critique of tradition), the author's next move was to develop a trans-critique, which required the transmutation of the project into a long genealogy of three concepts (diffraction, cosmopolitics, and meta-transcendental) that condense the triple methodology itself (queer-diffractional, cosmopolitical-pluriversal, and speculative-meta-transcendental) that (poly-)oriented this project. Part 0 aims to open up a problematic field of investigation — material(ist) transcritique — and to expose the central concepts, orientations, and motivations for the pluricartography of this triple turn (which is also one). This is followed by part I, the core of this thesis, where we enter the territory of the ‘Gender continent’ to map in detail the material turn according to the orientation of the genderization vector. In this new continent of thought, we find a space from which the departing vector would diffract between divergent modes of material(ist) heritage, triggering a series of conflicts that would culminate in the material turn and the proliferation of new materialisms. In this trajectory, we highlight the queer-/cuir-diffractive event as the trigger for the methodological-conceptual epi-genesis of a queer/cuir lineage heir to feminist science studies (FSS) and to a diffractive practice as an onto-epistemological-performative radicalization of the (critical) reflexive procedure. We conclude briefly with an orientation toward the promised ongoingness of this project, following the mappings of the other components of the threefold turn, whose interpellation in relation to the author of this thesis led to the beginning of this project.