Remembrando territórios corpo-terra: cartografias feministas sobre trabalho, ou planos de composição para micropolíticas de(s)coloniais

Abstract

This thesis argues for the primacy of the body as an insurgent territory, one through which, and within which, it becomes necessary to incorporate educational, investigative, creative, and expressive processes capable of generating and sustaining affective-ethical-aesthetic forms of labor, integrated with anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal macropolitical struggles. To structure the arguments supporting this proposition, the following concepts are presented: transindividuation and becoming in Simondon; rhizome and becoming in Deleuze and Guattari; affect and ethics in Spinoza. These concepts serve to problematize and reveal the somatopolitical technologies implicated in the artificiali zation of individuation processes, forged through the Western expansion of a colonial modernity, in which the hegemony of a rationalist conduct was produced and the Cartesian body – machine paradigm was institutionalized. The complexity of this context is grounded in a philosophical ontology of transcendence, which this study challenges through its theoretical and practical foundations. In seeking to consolidate the relevance of a corporeal and decolonial epistemology, this research endorses the coherences of a philosophical ontology of immanence. From the engagement with social-popular movements committed to confronting capitalist modes of production, feminist cartographies of labor were carried out to apprehend the intensities circulating in the micropolitical planes of composition that emerge within these movements. For this purpose, cartography was adopted as the most adequate methodological approach, enabling an intervention-research focused on the production of transversalities, in accordance with the criteria of an institutional analysis. In that regard, over a fifteen-month period, between 2023 and 2024, three collectives of rural women workers, linked to movements for the solidarity economy and/or agroecology in Uruguay, were mapped. Grounded in a cartographic body sensitized through artistic experiences in dance and ecoper f ormance, and in maps produced through immersive experiences with these Uruguayan rural workers, the thesis investigates the aesthetic-ethical-affective demands implicated in singular – collective processes of individuation. Grounded in philosophical and sociological reflections, drawing from interdisciplinary approaches in social psychology and the arts, this thesis delved into the complexity of the somatic body -machine paradigm, problematizing it as one of the mai n technologies serving the modes of organization of existence, and consequently, labor within the capitalist patriarchy. Thus, the discussions presented in this thesis focus on feminist insurgencies emerging within contexts of confrontation with the determinisms of neoliberal and neocolonial capitalism. Above all, they point to the necessity of the struggle against patriarchy. From the immersions conducted during the field research, the following questions emerged: what languages and technologies are asking to be brought forth in the creation of non – patriarchal territories? How can body-land territories be revitalized through aesthetic-ethicalaffective somatopolitics? From these encounters, resentments were recognized and demands for patriarchal decolonization were announced from within the movements where these women workers operate. In this sense, the thesis corroborates and intertwines with the micropolitical becomings that are indispensable to bodies that long for other realities – in this case – in which labor is conceived as an anti-patriarchal mode of existence. Therefore, they act beyond the rupture with the capitalist system. This thesis is an invitation to transindividuation, and it shares journeys committed to the production of existence and desires rooted in the land and its profound ancestral wisdom, which embraces body -reason in immanence, whose expressions herald aesthetic-ethical-affective territories of freedom.