AFFECTS THAT (DE)TERRITORIALIZE Flows of affections and powers producing meanings in the neighborhoods of Varadouro (João Pessoa-PB) and Ribeira (Natal-RN)
Affections; Historic sites Urban; Multiplicity; Rhizome.
This research focuses on the various affections experienced in parts of the Historic Sites of the cities of João Pessoa-PB and Natal-RN to analyze analytically the flow of communicative interactions among the social agents responsible for the production of meanings in urban centers. For Spinoza (2009), affections are the processes of changes that occur when we affect our surroundings and are affected by the exterior, as well as the changes that are made in our bodies. Affection is flow and action, not just feelings. From this perspective, we analyze the various affections shared between the subjects practicing and between subjects and the physical spaces themselves in the experiences of these urban centers, which also carry layers of stories and symbolisms engraved in their structures. How do such affects, such powers of action, act in the production of meaning and constant resignifications of these historical areas, forging metropolitan landscapes in constant mutations? We seek divergent and confluent manifestations in these two empirical realities studied. In order to carry out this research, the method of investigation adopted - cartography - does not consider as already determined neither the object in its nature or its supposed existential reality, nor its structure, but the process itself of walking as part of the investigation. In this sense, the research trail, the production of rhizomatic networks and connections, are perceived and analyzed from the infinite possibilities of transformative and sense-producing affections. This cartographic approach has as main support the multiplicities theory of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2011b).