In the tangles of experience: notes, sketches and imagination to understand the environment

• Autor(a) principal: Viana, Moisés dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Jesus, Rosane Meire Vieira de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/69256
• topic: agencies; experience; entanglements; Tim Ingold.; agências; experiência; emaranhados; Tim Ingold.

In this essay we talk about environments and agencies and how they are, adversely, in the mainstay of the current idea of transdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and transgression in university doing that tends to be disciplinary, monocratic and conservative, because, strictly speaking, the so-called academic requires a conceptualization of knowledge in the simulacrum of having a ‘research object’. Thus, we want to emphasize that epistemic practice is colonized and its power is given to those who have power and therefore we dare to walk under labyrinths, in the cracks, between blurs of things not established, sometimes denied but potent in creativity and also imaginative. We start from a proper and appropriate reflexive perspective and tend to present provocations that can contribute to the already well-established discussion of thinking about human and non-human relations. To this end, we review the thought of Tim Ingold, a British anthropologist who has made an important contribution to this discussion in contemporary times. Finally, we highlight essayistic dynamics to think about a relationship between epistemology and the concept of agency, taking as a challenge to reflect on how environments are continually in formation due to the activities of human and non-human creatures; the evolution of form is a situated activity of these beings; and that it is in the entanglements of experience, notes, sketches and imagination that we understand the environment.