Brazil is a body that hurts: other policies of grafias-de-vida from Silviano Santiago

Abstract

This work is born from the premise that “everything" that is important for my theorization is, from a Biographic frontier criticism perspective, a necessary requirement for my own life as a researcher. In specific terms, I focus on the concepts of body and geo-politics, and these are some of the terms of “everything" that was covered, expunged, invisibilized, disregarded, delegitimized and even (neo)colonized through the teo-egological mechanisms of coloniality and imperialism, especially in the unveiling of this Brasil de pretéritos e presentes imperfeitos of ours (mis)governed by Bolsonarism until 2022. For this, I will use the concept of grafia-de-vida named by Silviano Santiago, especially in the work Fisiologia da composição, however, I will shift and moreover, I will subvert its focus from Brazilian literature to the political spectrum directed to coloniality in Bolsonarist Brazil situated in the ego and theopolitical settings of cover-up and rejection to body and geo-inconvenient policies. In this sense, I use the formulation of Claudete Daflon (2022) to title this work, since especially from 2018 to 2022 the colonial policies underway here confirmed that yes: Brazil is a body that hurts. More than that, in this Brasil de pretéritos e presentes imperfeitos, there are pluriversal bodies and geo-politics intertwined by multiple body-geo-graphs of inconvenient lives, from Silviano’s point of view, which survive and re-exist through the eminence of danger.