Imagine new worlds now: Cosmopolitics and raciality
Rev. Cadernos de Campo, Araraquara, v. 23, n. 00, e023021, 2023. e-ISSN: 2359-2419
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historiography about the difficulty of the realism schemes and theoretical foundations of the
medical sciences academy in understanding that the manifestations of the invisible are not
virtualities, they are not simple anecdotes that we tell, since such manifestations deviate from
historically recognizable principles in the eyes of the onto-epistemology inherited from colonial
modernity. These ways of imagining and creating worlds are invisible to the dual states - visible
and invisible, said and unsaid, audible and inaudible - of the power diagrams themselves.
As long as academia insists on capturing radical imaginations within the old parameters
of knowledge production and circulation, it will become increasingly difficult to understand
other onto-epistemologies such as those of black radical imagination studies, which have been
creating methodologies and other experiments on how to approach what is not allowed to be
apprehended as a recognizable archive by academia as we know it. This is the task of Hartman's
critical fable (2019; 2008) and, above all, of the elusive methodology undertaken by the
undercommons plan mentioned by Moten and Harney (2013) below:
In the undercommons of the reproductive social domain, the means, i.e. the planners,
are still part of the plan. And the plan is to invent the means in a common experiment
launched from any kitchen, any back porch, any basement, any living room, any park
bench, any impromptu party, every night. This ongoing experiment with the informal,
carried out by and on the means of social reproduction, as the advent of life forms, is
what we mean by planning; planning in the undercommon is not an activity, nor is
fishing, dancing, teaching or loving, but the ceaseless experiment with the futuristic
presence of the life forms that make such activities possible (MOTEN; HARNEY,
2013, p. 74-75, auhor’s emphasis, our translation).
Moten and Harney start from the undercommons to support the theory of what they call
the "black study" as a prophetic study, since it never allows itself to be located in the real time
of events but is also a kind of fugitive plan that improvises the future now. The "black study"
neither stops at conceptual prisons nor simply rebels against them. This study produces a secret
dimension between the prison and the revelation that the former tries to prevent. It is "a secret
that calls the prophetic into being, a secret held in common, organized as secret, calling the
prophetic organization into being" (MOTEN; HARNEY, 2013, p. 42, our translation).
If, based on the futuristic plans of the black radical imagination in line with other
histories of raciality, I talk about imagining the future in another way as something that builds
non-locatable networks, this never corresponds to any strictly individual demand. It was the
colonizing world that created individualism. This is not part of my way of conceiving the "me"
that I inherited from my grandfathers and grandmothers of the maternal line, who were peoples
attributed as Tapuias by the colonizers and who were various lineages of indigenous people