The empty occupies a huge space: Secondary Occupations and the skills needed to move in the crisis

Abstract

This work follows the qualities of attention and learning operated in Secondary Occupations. Through participant observation and interviews, it analyzes the school as an arena that presents the crisis in the struggle for ways of living, knowing, producing itself and the world. Understanding the crisis from the deleuzian matrix, the analysis starts from the notion of skills, worked by the anthropologist Tim Ingold (2010, p.15), as “properties of dynamic self-organisation of the total field of relationships in which a person’s life unfolds.” to observe the coemergence of three learning practices in the Occupations: the problematization, the deconstruction and the practice of transformation in the contact with the alterity evoked as Outrar-se (became another). Practices traced in the pulsing existential and subjectivation territories, that are formed between the social movements and the State, in the conflict between the modes of self-government and of the others. The conceptual reverberations of anthropology, politics, and education signal trails for a possible movement in the empty.