The girl, the poet and the madman: nonsense and cosmopolitics as emergents of the subjective in the academic space

Authors

  • Luiz Guilherme Mascarenhas Alves Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto - UFOP https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3184-2433
  • Maria Lucília Borges Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30905/rde.v10i1.1227

Keywords:

Nonsense, Cosmopolitics, Languages, Representation, Subjectivity

Abstract

Formulated with an interdisciplinary approach, this article explores the activation of languages within academia, interpreting it as a phenomenon with the potential to enable creative acts and "foreignness" in affected subjects. Drawing on postulates concerning non-sense (Deleuze, 1974), human malaise (Kristeva, 2002a, 2002b, 1989), and new ways of thinking about science from the perspective of cosmopolitics (Stengers, 2018, 2023), we problematize the use of languages at the "I Cosmopolitical Transfluences Colloquium: Mythopoetics, Education, Territories," held on March 25 and 26, 2025, at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP). In this sense, this work contributes to a reflection on the interface between a semiotic approach to languages (Santaella, 1983) and subjectivation processes in learning, including in higher education, understood as forces generating other possible worlds in cosmopolitical proposition.

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Author Biographies

Luiz Guilherme Mascarenhas Alves, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto - UFOP

Graduando em Jornalismo pela Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). Publicou como editor assistente em diagramação, responsável pela criação e gerência do editorial de fotografia, a revista impressa RE.LATOS (DEJOR-UFOP). Participou do projeto de extensão "Territórios Atingidos e Produção de Vídeo como Prova" do Departamento de Jornalismo da mesma universidade, sendo bolsista PIP-UFOP, dialogando com temas em jornalismo ambiental, mineração, lutas sociais, audiovisual e segurança cibernética.  Atualmente estuda e se dedica a pesquisas e estudos transdisciplinares nas áreas de comunicação e estética, comunicações sensíveis, comunicação visual, moda, arte e cultura.

Maria Lucília Borges, Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP)

Associate Professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto - UFOP. Graduated in Graphic Design (UNESP/Bauru-1998), with a master's and doctorate in Communication and Semiotics (PUC/SP), has been developing since 1998 research on the relationship between music and design, focusing on intersemiotic translation, listening and sensitive communication. Research that began with the course completion project O Pulsar do Design (1998) and continued in the master's (Soundesign, 2003) and doctorate (Design Desejante: a dobra como espaço e(ntr)e, 2008). Studied piano in childhood and adolescence and worked as a pianist for the UNESP/Bauru Choir (1994-1996), from which comes her musical foundation that contributed to the development of her research. From 2007-2008 she was in Portugal, with a CAPES sandwich scholarship, developing part of the doctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Álvaro Barbosa, at the Center for Research in Science and Technology of the Arts - CITAR, School of the Arts, Portuguese Catholic University, Porto. During the doctoral internship, she studied with Martin Kaltenbrunner, one of the creators of the Reactable, a collaborative electroacoustic musical instrument with a tangible multitouch table interface. As a designer, she worked with graphic design, webdesign and art direction. She was a collaborator in the sociocultural mapping project of the south zone of São Paulo "Santo Amaro em Rede" (2009-2012), promoted by SESC/SP, in which she was responsible for creating the project logo; concept, information architecture, art direction and interface design of the hypermedia site; concept, art direction, graphic project and layout of the publications (report and catalog). As a researcher, in addition to CAPES, which financed her stay in Portugal and participation in international congresses, she received support from FAPESP in the first year of the doctoral research, and from CNPq, which also financed the master's research. In 2018, she developed her postdoctoral research at the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory - IDMIL and Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology - CIRMMT, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), with the collaboration of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Wanderley. Since 2012, she has worked as a researcher and professor of Aesthetics, Sound Art and Graphic Design in the Department of Journalism at UFOP. Currently, her research focuses on Product Design (wearable interface/computer, smart clothing and handmade design), Art (Music and Installation Art), Affective Technologies (biosensors and smart fabrics) and Sensitive Communication Processes (silence, listening and affections of the human body).

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Published

2026-07-13

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Mascarenhas Alves, L. G., & Borges, M. L. (2026). The girl, the poet and the madman: nonsense and cosmopolitics as emergents of the subjective in the academic space. Devir Educação, 10(1), e-1227. https://doi.org/10.30905/rde.v10i1.1227

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2026): DEVIR EDUCAÇÃO

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