O belo perigo da escrita: Foucault e a arte de pensar a alteridade com “mãos de veludo”

This article deals with the memories of a researcher who, for some decades, has been inspired by Michel Foucault, especially in his way of thinking about the urgencies of the present, the construction of truths and the status of writing and authorship. The text refers to some of the author’s research, making connections with recent political and social events, while also dialoguing with theorists and artists, such as Foucault, Chico Buarque, Deleuze, Manoel de Barros, Paul Veyne, among others. The theme of otherness runs through the entire text, with emphasis on the aesthetic elaboration of the self and the necessary exercise of an ethics of existence.