Design das relações: amor, escuta e procedimento

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the theoretical conditions for a possible design of relations in the midst of colonial and climatic catastrophe. Such a possibility entails recognizing materiality as the outcome of relations. To this end, the research adopts procedures that strain the institutional limits of the dissertation as a textual genre, articulating reflections on the experience of love and on its contemporary transformations in response to the multiple crises we face. These procedures operate as a means of creating bonds with the dissertation-as-document, enabling the exploration of concepts from the psychoanalytic field, particularly its understandings of love. At the same time, the work weaves together experiences from the artistic collective #joyces and diverse personal intimacies of the author. Concepts such as discontent, transference, the uncanny (or unfamiliar), and working-through (perlaboração) are introduced in order to lay the groundwork for listening as a fundamental mode of practicing a design of relations.