Specters Animate the Corners of the Earth: Bodies Await, Withdrawn, the Manifest Time

From Memory assemblages, I will address the trait of para-ontological intelligibility that has sustained its cosmopolitical scope according to the specificity of the spectrum, whether in the structure of its own thought – in the “narrow thread of its purpose” – orfrom the “moving background” of its theoretical influences that result in additions and a significant absence, in my view. If the absence of interiority erases irrevocable contours; these, always mutable and always under some social appeal, depend on the tracing of a psyche. If this is a para-ontological choice, sometimes speculative, sometimes hanthological, it seems to me that an ontology is remade amid notions-in-erasure.

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Cosmos and history
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2026-04-13
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Diverse academic research themes
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Specters Animate the Corners of the Earth: Bodies Await, Withdrawn, the Manifest Time

Gabriela Lafetá Gabriela Lafetá Borges
Cosmos and history
Diverse academic research themes
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Specters Animate the Corners of the Earth: Bodies Await, Withdrawn, the Manifest Time

Gabriela Lafetá Gabriela Lafetá Borges
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From Memory assemblages, I will address the trait of para-ontological intelligibility that has sustained its cosmopolitical scope according to the specificity of the spectrum, whether in the structure of its own thought – in the “narrow thread of its purpose” – orfrom the “moving background” of its theoretical influences that result in additions and a significant absence, in my view. If the absence of interiority erases irrevocable contours; these, always mutable and always under some social appeal, depend on the tracing of a psyche. If this is a para-ontological choice, sometimes speculative, sometimes hanthological, it seems to me that an ontology is remade amid notions-in-erasure.

Cosmos and history
Universidade de Brasília (BR)
Reduced inequalities
Openalex Percentile: Top 4%
Diverse academic research themes
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