“Life is not useful”: dream and lift the sky

• Autor(a) principal: Canavieira, Fabiana Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Zero-a-seis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/zeroseis/article/view/78344

This review does not intend to only introduce the latest book of indigineous leader, journalist and environmentalist AiltonKrenak, entitled A Vida não é útil (Life is not useful), but also to discuss his thinking, gathered in the latest three books Krenak published. The latest publications, a trilogy, unravels the fiction of the economic model in which our lives are embedded. Within an objective, sensible and ironic language, the author marks his anti colonial, anti capitalistic and intensively critical thinking towards the predatory life model that the high caste that calls itself humanity lives, which he makes strong criticisms. The author exposes, from his traditional ancestral knowledge, his form of connection with the Earth as an intelligent living organism. Also makes considerations about different perceptions of life and death, to indigenous people and non-indigenous people, placing the discussion in the context of the pandemic of the new Coronavirus - Covid19. It approaches the technologies fetish and defends the connection between dreams and everyday life, while defending less development and more involvement. The invitation to read his work is not only due to its critical content in defense of a politic of life but also due to the sensitive aesthetics of its micro-hope realistic worldview.