Materialidades afectantes, memorias reflexivas y ensayos performáticos. Movilización de saberes encarnados en la universidad

Abstract

As researchers and university teachers, we are interested in inquiring upon the capacity for agency and reflection that becomes from our corporealities. Thus, we explored transdisciplinary methodological exercises of a performance-research type, based on the performative exploration and the socio-critical reflection. In the first place, we critically reviewed the ontological, epistemic, and political patterns of coloniality/ modernity that led to the invisibilization and silencing of sensory corporealities in movement with the social and human sciences. Then, we analyzed the main didactic proposals of the performance-research type deployed so far: a) an inquiring from provocative affective materialities, b) the exercise of incarnated memory and analytical reflection about the own life experiences and genealogies, and c) the collective performative explorations of imagining and desiring. We hypothesize that the aperture to exercise and try out new and critically located articulations of diverse modalities has particular potential for mobilizing reflective processes about the incarnated knowledge(s) as well as the micro-policies ofagency that promotes its transformation and expansions towards a decolonized horizon.