Escrita como saúde: cartografando e cinecartografando a morte como potência de vida e de educações outras

Abstract

This dissertation aimed to awaken different feelings about death and the relationship we establish with it, based on the Japanese short film "The House of Small Cubes," directed by Kunio Katō. The short film serves as the central methodological instrument of this research; however, throughout its development, narratives on the theme were complemented by poems and other writings by the researcher, materializing potential affections at opportune moments. This research unfolded through cartography and cinecartography, employing poetic and fable-like writing about death, seeking to think of it outside Western parameters and tracing paths that embrace it as a life-affirming force. Authors like Rolnik (2016) and Lourenço (2022) contributed to understanding the concepts of cartography and cinecartography, as well as the development of the self-cartographer. Deleuze and Guattari (1995), Souriau (2020), Despret (2023), Lapoujade (2015), among others, supported the construction of thoughts about death from alternative perspectives. This research highlighted the importance of considering death as something that permeates life and coexists with it, emphasizing the need for discussion and contemplation in a movement of learning to die—an approach that opens space for expressing the affections that death evokes in us and that seek acknowledgment. Thus, it is understood that death requires a broader and more systematic exploration of the theme starting from educational spaces where deeper discussions, reflections, and learning can take place, seeking education with death. In this sense, fabulation in education emerged as a fertile field, an open door to multiple paths, creating bridges of connection and/or reconnection between knowledge and being, between living and dying.