Mundo-sem-nós e Nós-sem-mundo
O paradoxo dos zumbis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61378/yeqm7v88Keywords:
Zumbis, Antropoceno, Reconhecimento, MundoAbstract
The concepts of "world-without-us" and "us-without-world," coined by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski in the work "Há mundo por vir?" (2017), when related to cinematic zombies – creatures challenging Cartesian differentiation between res cogitans and res extensa due to their lack of consciousness, i.e., the inability to recognize the world – prompt the question: what would it be like, borrowing Giorgio Agamben's formulation (2006), if there were neither a world nor humans, without ecosystem and species ceasing to exist? Is it possible to have a world-without-us or us-without-world without the differentiation between Nature and Culture? The hypothesis I intend to explore throughout this text is that, upon investigating the proposed concepts, it may be concluded that contemporary cinematic figures of zombies exist because they mobilize the same dualistic concepts used to differentiate and hierarchize beings that influenced their genesis in the post-colonial folklore of Haiti. To provide an answer to these questions, I propose an investigation into the concepts of "us," "world," and "recognition."
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