Dissertação-ensaio com e sobre o erótico: experiências estéticas e poéticas por meio de uma escrita de si

Abstract

This essayistic and experimental research seeks to investigate the erotic as a philosophical concept. The research employs a methodology that blends theory and practice, based on my experiences (Miñoso, 2020) elaborated through a self-writing (Pereira, 2018), with the aim of exploring how the erotic can be operationalized through aesthetics and poetics, rather than being limited to conventional, sexual, patriarchal, racist, etc. views. The research emphasizes the importance of integrating bodily and sensitive experience into the process of self-subjective constitution and promotes a critique of the abuses and violences of the colonialcapitalistic regime (Rolnik, 2018). It then seeks to reframe Eros/erotic beyond sexuality, taking it in an expanded sense, and aims for new ways of feeling, thinking, and acting in alignment with the erotic understood as satisfaction, pleasure, and joy. The author challenges traditional academic norms of conducting research by attempting to operationalize the expanded erotic through poetic writing and aesthetic experiences with images. Finally, it is understood that this operation must be carried out in becoming, as the world is unpredictable and tensions change over time.