Issues #29.1 and #29.2 of Revista da UFMG are available for reading, which have as themes, respectively, Stupor, social transformations, (in)discipline and Reconstructions. The Revista da UFMG can be accessed free of charge at the Portal de Periódicos.

The issue #29.1 had professors Daisy Moreira Cunha, Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas and Maria do Céu Diel de Oliveira as guest editors and brought together works by chairmen professors and residents who passed through the IEAT. The texts that make up this issue seek stupor and the constellation of reflective possibilities from transdisciplinary approaches. As the editorial explains, these are concepts rescued from Massimo Cavenacci and Walter Benjamin, taken as a kind of research methodology, which aims to scale the eternal boundaries of disciplines and which deal with the opening of the researcher’s intellectual sensitivity that, insofar as analyzes the object-subject, needs to know how to dialogue and reflect on himself. It is walking to overcome disciplinary constraints, a task that is only possible by “imagining and living indiscipline”. A series of metal engravings entitled Images for an Unknown Memory, made by Maria do Céu Diel between 2020 and 2022, was also specially organized for this issue.

 

Issue 29.2 brings together essays on the subject of Reconstructions. According to the editors of this issue, Sabrina Sedlmayer, from the UFMG Faculty of Arts and Roberto Vecchi, from the University of Bologna, there are many gestures and movements involved in the reconstructions. First, it is worth highlighting the role of the Latin prefix re, whose etymology refers to restituire, which denotes the idea of a repeated action, of repair or restoration. The meaning of rebuilding (which literally means building again) points to the purpose of this issue, which is to explore, expand, constitute, modify the idea of starting over and resuming. In addition, it offers us an invitation so that, in a transdisciplinary way, different areas of knowledge operationalize the potential of this transitive verb that calls into question not only the importance of the object, but also the relationship between objects, that is, how to rebuild. Second, the idea of translation also offers us a powerful reflection to understand the term reconstruction, since the act of translation, which involves moving from one language to another, also encompasses an ethical dimension, since it involves the ability to renew a sentence, assuming a responsibility – and a risk – in reformulating the target language. The metaphor of translation, as the challenge of conveying the same meaning in different ways, helps us to think of reconstruction as an opportunity for innovation.

According to Sedlmayer and Vecchi, reconstruction always presupposes an ethical position in relation to time and must be thought of from the double movement of deconstruction and reconstruction of the object, as the praxis of translation exemplifies.

Photographs by the artist Pedro Motta, from the series Naufragio calado [Silent Shipwreck], were chosen to dialogue with the essays in this edition.

About the Revista da UFMG

Revista da UFMG is a quarterly publication of the Federal University of Minas Gerais and its main objective is to address specific themes, from an interdisciplinary perspective, with the possibility of also disseminating research results and various theoretical and artistic productions, in the formats of articles, reviews , essays, literary texts and images. The publication has all its editions inserted in the Portal de Periódicos.