202557(en)/36 - The Paradoxes of the Contemporaneity Between Confluences and Resonances
THE PARADOXES OF THE CONTEMPORANEITY BETWEEN CONFLUENCES AND RESONANCES
LAS PARADOJAS DE LO CONTEMPORÁNEO ENTRE CONFLUENCIAS Y RESONANCIAS
Bruno Souza Leal and Ana Regina Rêgo
This paper investigates the contemporaneity as a turning point in the politics of time. We are particularly interested in the political and epistemic dimensions that the fracture of the present brings and some of its contradictions, as highlighted, among others, by the Argentine Maria Inés Mudrovcic, the Dutch Johannes Fabian and the Belgian Berber Bevernage, which are reviewed first. We begin by characterizing the challenges involving the politics of time and then we critically observe two radically different responses to the injunctions of the contemporaneity: those by Hartmut Rosa, and his view of resonance, and those by Antônio Bispo and his notions of confluence and transfluence. This is not about comparing the thoughts conducted by the German philosopher and the Brazilian quilombola leader. It seems to us, however, that each one affirms ways of belonging to the world that respond to the “experiential asymmetry” of the contemporaneity.