Risco de despoesia : o lógos revocalizado em Augusto de Campos

Abstract

This master’s thesis analyzes a fraction of the work of Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos, emphasizing its vocal and acoustic qualities. Serving as foundation of our proposal, we seek to do intellectual justice to the concept of "verbivocovisuality" and recognize its aesthetic consequences on a poetic body of work often regarded as more visual than any other thing. Thus, it’s a fact of particular interest for us the increasing importance of performative aspects present in Augusto de Campos's work, facilitated by technological development that started to accelerate from the 1980s onwards. This coincides in time with the intensification of Campos's attention to multimedia tools and his instrumental use of digital and sound technologies (SÜSSEKIND, 2002). We refer to this process due to its implications for his poetics as the "logos’s revocalization", a transformation opposed to the historical devocalization process engineered by Western metaphysics, according to Adriana Cavarero’s thesis (2011). This dissertation aims to review various hypotheses about Augusto de Campos's artistic work, such as that of spectralization (the poet’s disappearance and reappearance) and the citational individual (a large mantle of intertextuality that ends preserving the poet’s subjectivity), which are only corroborated when his vocal, musical, "poemusical", "verbivocoperformative" characteristics are regarded relevant for a detailed reading. The corpus of our analyses comprises the CD-books Poesia é risco (1995) and Entredados (2022), both produced by Augusto in partnership with Cid Campos