Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: PEDRO JOÃO DA SILVA BISNETO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PEDRO JOÃO DA SILVA BISNETO
DATE: 28/11/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Setor de Aula II, sala C1
TITLE:

THE ONTO-EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE END OF THE WORLD: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LOGIC OF OBLITERATION IN DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA

KEY WORDS:

Denise Ferreira da Silva; Onto-epistemology; End of the world; Logic of obliteration.

PAGES: 318
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: Filosofia Brasileira
SUMMARY:

Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva defines the most recent issue in her theoretical project as questioning what effects, consequences, and ramifications would take place if we abandon modern critical procedures that are based on the same ontological and epistemological foundations as raciality (understood as a tool for promoting racial subjugation). This question also raises doubts about what the direct implications would be for philosophy as a field of knowledge. We end up returning to philosophy because we understand that, when placed as a qualitative element of evaluation—a tribunal of reason—it becomes a process that certifies what is good and what should exist, to the detriment of what should be annulled, pointing to racialization as a demarcator of obliteration as a necessity. Based on this question and on the recognition that epistemological abandonment must also reverberate as a deconstruction of the world as we know it in order to face the death of racialized bodies, I begin to see the urgency of breaking with the form and model of modern Western reason/life/consciousness/philosophy. This strategy will be employed through the use of blackness as a significant of the end of the world, because blackness is the representation of non-being, of the non-subject, as it is surrounded by a axiological category that indicates the nature of flesh, thing, excess implied in racialized bodies implied on the social, economic, political, ethical, and symbolic arrangements inherent to their bodyhood. This reordering of racialization, which informs the end of the world, will be sustained, according to my analysis, on three points that mark its indispensability: 1. The sustenance of the modern world on ontoepistemological foundations and their respective fathers (especially Descartes, Kant, and Hegel); 2. The insufficiency of emancipatory projects arising from decoloniality that reproduce the same world and the same logic of obliteration; 3. The formation of a Radical Black Brazilian Thought that draws on Denise's conceptualizations to sustain death as an existential determinant (calling for the end of the world, the end of the canon, the death of form and model). Therefore, we propose not only to structure an analysis of the end of the world, but also to delimit an understanding of it based on an exegesis of the work of Professor Ferreira da Silva.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2415197 - FEDERICO SANGUINETTI
Externa à Instituição - ALEXIA BRETAS - UFABC
Externa à Instituição - MARIA FERNANDA NOVO DOS SANTOS - UFRJ
Externo à Instituição - VICTOR GALDINO ALVES DE SOUZA - UFRJ