II Encontro Nietzsche e Foucault: diálogos

Abstract

The text that is now available to the reader is the Proceedings of the II Nietzsche-Foucault Meeting, whose theme was the dialogues that could be established with the thought of each of these philosophers, as well as between them and/or based on them. This second edition of the event sought to deepen the proposal of establishing a space for confrontation and questioning the importance of the meditations developed by these thinkers for the concerns that our times pose to us. It was in this way that the Meeting sought to develop the work in three distinct but complementary axes. In the first two days of the event, participants could follow three different mini-courses, one in each shift. In the morning, a reflection on the architecture of Friedrich Nietzsche's most mysterious work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, was developed. The objective of such an incursion was to clarify the relationships between the various elements that constitute this text, as well as its own elaborations of problems that can be found in other moments of the German philosopher's thought. The afternoon mini-course focused on an introduction to the philosophical approach developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, known as schizoanalysis, based on the central concept of the Body-without-Organs, understanding that the work of these two French philosophers occurs in a zone of intersection between the two central thinkers of the event. In the evening, the course focused on a specific aspect of Michel Foucault's thought, his heterodox interpretation of neoliberalism, and the possibilities for developing the interpretation of our times based on this. As for the round tables, we found a variety of researchers from different regions of Brazil working successively on different dialogues between Nietzsche's thought and the feminist question, criminal thought and criminals, as well as a dialogue between Foucaultian thought and issues such as (trans)feminist epistemologies, the aesthetics of existence as experiences of self-transformation, the biopolitical imagination, and the relationships of this French philosopher with two other fundamental figures in his career: Nietzsche himself and the philosopher-physician Georges Canguilhem, among many other incursions. Finally, on Friday, the last day of the Meeting, the communication sessions took place in thematic rooms that started with one or both of the central authors of the event, or even crossed them towards a problem originally outside their analytical scope. At that moment, what happened was a fortuitous and fortunate encounter between diverse researchers who often did not even know each other, but whose work ended up producing an instigating conversation that leveraged the resolution of research problems in the future, as well as helping to build new fields of problematization. We hope that the reader, upon encountering the reflections contained in these Annals, will find an invitation to produce new dialogues with the works contained herein. May reading these summaries enable not only the development of new research, but also a way of thinking that becomes concrete in the Brazilian social fabric, giving rise to new configurations of emancipation.