“A science fiction essay”: history of the present in the supplement Anexo, of the newspaper Diário do Paraná

Abstract

The aim of this article is to understand the modes of historicity present in the Anexo, supplement of culture and arts published in the newspaper Diário do Paraná in the late 1970’s, with the intention of being a graphic space for artistic experimentation, an attempt to make art in the newspaper. Based on the idea of Eric Landowski, according to which every newspaper tells a certain history of the present, it is important to understand what kind of history and figurations of temporality the supplement produced. For this, we will use the concepts of heterotopy, understanding the supplements of art/culture as spaces other in relation to the current diagram of newspapers, and of heterochrony, seeking to understand the modes of experience of time produced within these spaces. The intention is to demonstrate that the supplement used art and its fictions to tell a story of the present that diagnosed, at the very moment of its emergence, the regime of historicity presentist and, at the same time, sought to perceive and give voice to a whole series of virtual consistencies that subsisted in the interstices of its actuality.