A vida em seus fluxos identitários: notas discursivas e materialidade no centro e nas margens.

Abstract

Text prepared to be presented to the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia, in order to obtain the title of Full Professor, the highest level in the teaching career at higher education institutions in Brazil. As a general objective, in order to raise the conditions required for promotion to the position of Full Professor at the Federal University of Uberlândia, I intend to present and understand my life experiences, articulating them with the developments of national policies of a political, social, economic and educational nature as defining factors of the conditions of my existence. As specific objectives, I intend to: a) map Brazilian political, economic, social and educational events that occurred from 1967 to 2024; b) articulate the elements of these events in my personal and professional life experiences; and c) identify and highlight how the strands of the discourses of a political, economic, social and educational nature acted in the subjection and objectification of human existence in the neoliberal capitalist system, adopting my life experience as an example. What elements justify the national feeling that, regardless of who assumes political power, life remains the same? Where did this idea come from? What are the implications of this position in the construction of people's existence in different social contexts? What are the difficulties in breaking with this historical positioning so present in people's daily lives? The text presents aspects of Brazilian history with a focus on political, economic, social and educational issues in the center called “The state – a device of governance power” and on its margins, on the left, personal and educational history, “Institutions as devices of regularization (family and school)”, and on the right, professional life, “The constitution of homo oeconomicus – how to become an entrepreneur of oneself”. Making an analogy to a text, which has a written part and its margins, there are no writings, but that does not mean that there is no information, they just do not appear to give centrality to what is written. Here they are present and are as relevant as the center, because they intercommunicate, contaminate, and constitute each other.