Percorrendo as (entre)linhas da cidade: o centro de Aracaju através da pegação

Abstract

Anchored in a critical perspective that dialogues with the philosophy of difference, with queer and feminist theories, and with decolonial studies, the dissertation proposes a counter hegemonic investigation of inhabited spaces, having as its motto the wandering experiences of a gay researcher traveling through the (between)lines of the Center of Aracaju, crossing the streets of the nightlife city and three cruising spots in the region – a gay sauna, an internet café and an erotic cinema. This perspective presupposes not appeasement, but the understanding and explanation of the power relations that are at stake in the standardization practices of contemporary cities, proposing to think of the city in its heterogeneity, as something multiple, a montage of evidence, strata, fragments of multiple temporalities, of narratives, of discourses, which overlap, compete and conflict. The research, then, takes the Center of Aracaju as a space for problematization to deal with temporalities and spatial appropriations based on everyday experiences that inhabit the spaces between the lines, the voids, the interstices, the amnesia, the gaps in the city, beyond, even though intertwined, from the heritage landscape or from the material dimension of the built space. The aim is to tension the discriminations that end up being legitimized by the methodological practices in force in the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism, which to this day reflect the remnants of a functional logic and technical progress, with clearly controlling, normative and ordering functions, which tend to produce a positivist, simplifying and homogenizing understanding of cities. Therefore, we seek to establish other starting epistemologies, implying both a different elationship with architectural and urban thinking, which understands it as embodied, localized, non-universal, and with the methodologies that derive from it and support it. In this sense, one of our research paths focuses precisely on the need to think about other ways of mapping such issues, understanding cartography from the rhizomatic perspective of Deleuze and Guattari. Considering that the production of this text is also a way of questioning such aspects, the dissertation distorts its objectives, structure, epistemology and research methods into kaleidoscopic research processes and urban (dis)(re)assemblies, inspired by Paola Jacques' experiments. Based on these questions, the dissertation seeks to weave lines of escape with the aim of exploring the power of dissident urban territories to review the history of cities, to open spaces for rewriting, and so that other narratives, other ways of being, of living, of inhabiting the space, are counted.