How Is It Possible to Confront Coloniality Through Devouring? An Anthropophagic Decolonial Approach

Guimarães RS, Ferreira AAL (2024)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2024

Journal

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology American Psychological Association

Book Volume: 44

Pages Range: 176-190

Journal Issue: 3

DOI: 10.1037/teo0000280

Abstract

In the late 1920s, Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954), who we will refer to as Oswald, sought to develop a theory/praxis that was initially configured as an aesthetic movement within the framework of Brazilian artistic modernism but which later became a peculiar type of thought with philosophical, epistemological, historical, cultural, political, and metaphysical (or antimetaphysical) connotations. Oswald’s intellectual production was born at the intersection of perspectives between the world wars and the postwar period. Oswald’s account of Western knowledge through his interpretation of indigenous metaphysics resulted in a provocative epistemology. In this work, we will present his artistic manifestos of the 1920s and also his academic texts of the 1940s and 1950s. This artistic and philosophical work is called Anthropophagic movement, and it is an experimental metaphysics entailing a new kind of thought and aesthetic sensibility. For that we will reaffirm his formulations by reintroducing his thoughts, aiming at creating new developments that lead to a generative discussion of his approach to a decolonial project. We show that Oswald’s approach was groundbreaking at his time, and it still is regarding certain approaches of current decolonial thought of the present.

Involved external institutions

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR France (FR) Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP) BR Brazil (BR)

How to cite

APA:

Guimarães, R.S., & Ferreira, A.A.L. (2024). How Is It Possible to Confront Coloniality Through Devouring? An Anthropophagic Decolonial Approach. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 44(3), 176-190. https://doi.org/10.1037/teo0000280

MLA:

Guimarães, Renato Silva, and Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira. "How Is It Possible to Confront Coloniality Through Devouring? An Anthropophagic Decolonial Approach." Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 44.3 (2024): 176-190.

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