Presentation

Abstract

The proposal of the theme LETTERS AND INDIGENOUS AND AFRICAN VOICES for Boitatá magazine is born from the perception of an urgency. The twentieth century triggered the need for epistemological rupture when, from natural sciences to human and social sciences, the principle of relativity deconstructed the absolute centrality of the Enlightenment subject. The foundations of the operational construct called reason, and with it the categories of truth and univocity of meaning, fell to the ground. Mediated by language, subjects know the world from a point of view, which in turn constitutes them as subjects. New theories are needed to account for a world that is both broader and more superficial, in short, global. Such theories arise from unstable places and perspectives, from subjects that move and renew or propose concepts.