Antropofagia zombi
Zombie Anthropophagy

Summary/Abstract: Brazilian experience with this type of politics of subjectivation over the past five centuries makes it clear that there is little reason to celebrate this condition: anthropophagy alone by no means ensures the vitality of society. It can be invested in different politics: from the affirmation of the most creative and ethical forces to the most servile flexibility, whose corollary is the most perverse instrumentalization of the other. In Brazil, one finds a variety of tendencies between these two poles, often more significantly weighted toward the perverse pole. Can the critical elaboration of the Brazilian anthropophagic experience contribute to problematizing contemporary subjectivity under the regime of finance capital? More specifically, can it contribute to problematizing the politics of the relationship to the other, as well as the fate of powers of knowledge and creation, inherent in this new figure of subjectivity? Can it, ultimately, contribute to “healing” today’s blinding fascination with regard to the flexibility and freedom of recently acquired hybridization?

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