Revista Interdisciplinar em Cultura e Sociedade

Editorial RICS-V11-N1-2025

Ana Caroline Amorim Oliveira — 2025-05-24

Editorial RICS-V11-N1-2025

“Close” and the impossibility of queer childhood

Djalma Thurler — 2025-06-03

The text addresses queer impossibility in childhood as a tragic marker in the contemporary social fabric, taking the film “Close” (2022), directed by Lukas Dhont, as a central axis of analysis. The narrative addresses the complexities of affective relationships between two boys in a context of heterosexual normativity that pathologizes intimacy and relegates affection to a sphere of suspicion. Exploring the subtleties of affection between the characters Léo and Rémi, the article reveals how social norms impose limits on the possible-affective, transforming bonds of friendship and love into experiences of exclusion, silence, pain, and death. By suggesting a critique of identity politics, this study, based on a queer analysis, proposes the reading of queer childhood as a spark of the impossible, a dissident territory that challenges dominant conventions.

A contribution to the political learning of civil solidarity in post-secularism: the “outline” of an Observatory of secularism, civil solidarity and tolerance

Fábio Caires Correia — 2025-05-23

Considering the debate between Jürgen Habermas and his critics on the problem of institutionalizing the “public use of reason” and the translation of the semantic potentials of the moral contents of religion in the post-secular public sphere, I propose in this article the formal-principled “outline” of an Observatory of secularity, civil solidarity and tolerance as a social institution embodied by normative claims assumed by the social practices of a post-secular way of life, interested in clarifying the process of formation of its post-conventional normative self-understanding and in the cooperative resolution of problems of social integration, which affect the reproduction of solidarity between religious and secular citizens, identified from public controversies on questions of “good life” and questions of justice, resorting to democratic mechanisms for the institutionalization (and transformation) of the cognitive dissonances (not always reasonable) between comprehensive doctrines. This formal-principled “outline” of an observatory can contribute to the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs and public policies for the political learning of enlightened secularism, civil solidarity and tolerance among citizens in societies marked by problems and social conflicts triggered by the non-equal treatment of respect, by the refusal to recognize and by the discrimination of plural forms of life, contributing to the strengthening and articulation of participatory-deliberative democratic mechanisms and bodies, capable of fostering cooperative and complementary action between the State and Civil society for the promotion of a post-secular political culture, in accordance with the political principles of the Constitution.

Literature and Rebellion: An analysis of Beat literature from a conception of political resistance

Alex Fabiano Correia Jardim — 2025-05-24

This article aims to contribute to an analysis of the Beat literary movement as a resistance movement against the values of North American society in the period preceding and during the counterculture demonstrations of the 1960s. To do so, we will use as a theoretical reference, the thought of philosopher Herbert Marcuse. In this sense or direction, in Marcuse, art cannot represent revolution; she can only invoke it in another medium, in an aesthetic form in which the political content becomes metapolitical, governed by the internal need for art. In this case, based on Marcuse and writers from the Beat literary movement, we can say that most of the great works of art since the 19th century represent a revolt against the bourgeoisie, a challenge to capitalism, the brutality of industry, the disruption of human relations and instrumental reason. When analyzing Beat literary production, we take into account the fact that, in order to be engaged, artistic manifestations do not necessarily have to be linked to any political doctrine. The idea of political action present in the work of Beat authors did not refer to a dogmatic-marxist position.

Care, work, and sexual difference: some critical considerations

Fernando Sepe Gimbo — 2025-06-03

This involves thinking philosophically about the category of care based on its articulations and differences with the concepts of labor and sexual difference. To this end, we first propose the importance and limits of an ontological reading of care as presented, at the present time, by Heidegger. Secondly, we seek to demonstrate the importance of the articulation of such a category based on the reading of works by feminist authors, especially with regard to the determination of ideas such as care work and ethics of care. Thus, our ultimate objective is, through this path, to express the illocutionary force of care as a matrix capable of reorienting our practices of insubordination and reinvention of ways of life today. That is, it is a matter of explaining not exactly an ontology, nor an epistemology or a morality of care, but rather its ethical-political effects for the present; which simply means: its critical force.

Delimitations on the right to extimacy in a society connected to digital networks and their impact on personality rights

Thaís Nanni Alexandrino — 2025-06-03

The advancement of technologies provided a new pattern of behavior for society, which began to expose its life and intimacy on social networks. It turns out that with this social evolution, personality rights gained another stage, with it, new forms of violations. Therefore, there is a need to discuss the right to privacy as a way to complement the right to privacy, aiming to protect the individual's right to use their social networks without having to renounce their right to privacy, thus preserving, the characteristic of the non-waiver of these rights, which are inherent to the human person. For the development of the present study, the hypothetical-deductive method was used, through bibliographical and documentary research.

Alcântara Launch Center and its socio-environmental impacts: four decades of quilombola exclusion

Alexsandro Mendonça Viegas — 2025-06-03

This article sought to analyze the process of installing the Alcântara Launch Center (CLA) in order to understand which aspects were agreed upon with the population, related to everything that was and was not contemplated over time. This research is interdisciplinary, exploratory, quantitative and qualitative in nature, and phenomenological. The research field was the municipality of Alcântara, MA, especially the seven agro-villages to which the residents were relocated when the CLA was first installed. At the end of our analysis, it became clear that the results of the CLA construction process in a municipality with a majority of quilombolas brought severe impacts of a cultural, ethnic, social, economic, and environmental nature, as can be observed from data such as social indicators, field data, and surveys of the region's socioeconomic and cultural conditions, as evidenced by social indicators, field reports, and changes in the living conditions of local communities.

The problem of subjectivity in Hume, Kant and Deleuze

Luiz Manoel Lopes — 2025-06-03

The aim of this paper is to study the question of causality from Hume’s perspective, and then present the development of this same question in Kant, emphasizing the importance of the theme as a step towards the philosophy of the event. The aim is to see the repercussions of the theme of causality in Hume and Kant in the development of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, mainly in what is presented as thought beyond consciousness: the a-subjective.

Domestic violence against women as an expression of the social issue

Luciana Gomes da Silva — 2025-06-03

Faced with the problem of gender inequality, the conception of domestic violence against women as an expression of social issues is questioned. Throughout the debate, based on bibliographical research and documentary analysis, it is observed that in addition to being a public security problem, domestic violence can also be considered a social problem. Thus, public policies are required from the State capable of contributing to combating it. However, when analyzing specific state actions, such as the normative provision of Law No. 14,133/2021, which provides for the possibility of the State hiring women who are victims of domestic violence, or even with the Aluguel Maria da Penha program, which are aimed at impoverished women, he notes contradictions inherent to capitalism affect their lives. Therefore, an approach from a critical perspective on domestic violence against women becomes relevant, considering it an expression of the social issue.

Will to life and unconsciousness in Schopenhauer's work

Pedro Damasceno Uchôas — 2025-06-03

This paper has as its aim to describe and explain the concepts of consciousness, unconsciousness (as a set of independent consciousness deliberation processes) and will to live in the work of Schopenhauer. To this end, we consider Schopenhauer's early texts in the manuscripts written concurrently with the production of his main work The World as Will and Representation and the way these notions play an important role in other works, such as On the Will in Nature and The World as Will and Representation II. We can see the fundamental importance, above all, of the unconscious, as an expression of the Will, in the general description of the reality of the world as appearance.

Protagonism and Representation Wanted: student perception about social movements in Brazil

Thomas Leonardo Marques de Castro Leal — 2025-06-03

Youth protagonism can be understood as the participation of adolescents in facing real situations at school, in the community, and in social life. One of the main ways in which this protagonism has come to fruition is through student and social movements. The objective of this article was to identify the perceptions and opinions of young people from professional Technical Education in a school in Vitória da Conquista - BA about youth protagonism and social movements in their lives. A survey and a descriptive and hermeneutic analysis of the data guided by two structured questionnaires were carried out for 26 students. Students showed limited knowledge of the subject, however, they believe in changes made by young people in society. Thus, the process of youth protagonism of these students needs to be intensified, as they are agents of transformation and politicization, in addition, there is a need for classes that discuss the subject more within the classroom.

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Ana Caroline Amorim Oliveira — 2025-05-23