Scientiarum Historia Magazine

Anthropophagic picnic: bones are more important than gold

Lucia Helena Ramos de Souza, Maria Mello de Malta, Bruno Nogueira Ferreira Borja — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

From reading the book The Fall of Heaven, written by a Yanomami shaman, we propose a brief look at ancestral, anthropophagic knowledge, based on the sacred, the common and the poetic. Which can be understood as an anthropophagic epistemology or knowledge from the other, the diverse, or, as a meeting place: an anthropophagic picnic - since the theme refers to the act of eating. But given the urgent needs of the world: conflicts, polarization, wars and the climate crisis, it is also urgent to think and observe, or “eat”, feed on, other ways of being in the world. A way in which not everything is a product or commodity, the result of exploration and accumulation, to satisfy some market, to obtain profit for a few. Ultimately, bones are worth more than gold.

Percepção de Imagens no Videogame e Cinema:

Thiago Ladislau, Maira Monteiro Fróes — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:34:27 +0000

. We propose a transdisciplinar approach in order to analyze images in video games, with the aim of establishing a solid theoretical foundation and exploring the feasibility of framing video games within a neurophenomenological context aligned with their historical phenomenology. We address the negligence in neuroscience regarding the phenomenological processes involved in the perception of images in video games and emphasize the underestimation of the attractive and consumable qualities of these images in past generations. We argue that the diversity in image qualities in video games over the decades cannot be solely attributed to technical evolution. Drawing on studies from Game Studies, we highlight the unique characteristics of the gaming experience with these images and contend that immediate interactivity should not be the sole focus of neuroscientific analysis. Inspired by the neurophenomenology of cinema by Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra we conclude that a comparative analysis of both cinema and video games from a neurophenomenological perspective enriches the understanding of images in video games and highlights their multimodal complexity, thereby unfolding new possibilities in this field.

Autoethnographic Descriptions in performance:

Luciane Moreau Coccaro — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:48:13 +0000

The goal of this article is to describe the performative program used in the creation of the dance performance Lasts as long as a Cigarette! And Salome danced! Through autoethnographic description, the text begins by presenting Salome as a behavior doubly experienced and restored based on her traces in my trajectory as a dancer. The theoretical question presents Salome as an entity, under the anthropological approach of the Amerindian perspective of Viveiros de Castro (2004); and as a way of existence for me in drawing and singing (SOURIAU, 2021). The autoethnographic writing shows methodological aspects of the research that generated the performance inspired by Salome, in the sense of pointing out references in art and science.

Uma Fenomenologia da Corporeidade:

Mônica Clemente — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:33:53 +0000

This article aims to present the Integrative and Complementary Practice in Health (PICS) of Family Constellations, a phenomenological approach aligned with Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, as an epistemological path for analyzing the letters of Antonin Artaud written at the Rodez sanatorium, particularly with regard to the Western intellectual trajectory that split the body and mind, transforming the innumerable states of being into mental illnesses. The goal is to demonstrate how this PICS, by taking the body as the subject of experience, reveals dimensions of the irrational, unconscious, dreamlike, and primitive as modalities of being. For this reason, this practice is a significant path to overcoming the mind-body dualism and to analyzing contexts of intersubjectivity that manifest in the body.