Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the call for papers and counting himself among the “Silvas” who have recently returned to the real/material/natural triptych, the author of this text seeks to present the subject/matter of transcritique (what he called the threefold material turn, the convoluted knot between the material, ontological, and speculative turns in the contemporary theoretical-critical-philosophical field) as a problematic and fruitful field for investigations of worlds/languages/practices/materials and their traversals. Starting from his particular journey as a materialist trans-researcher (or trans-materialist researcher), the article aims to bring to the fore the relationship between a singular investigative form of life and the general question about the possibility of mapping the contemporary neo- and pluri-materialist/-realist/-naturalist landscape. To this end, it is necessary to delve into the methodological discussion based on a broad review of the meanings of the world, matter, language, and the transcendental, which enables us to glimpse the emergence of the field of transcritical research, where transworldly, transmaterial, and translanguaging methodologies can be developed through the contact between divergent worlds/languages/practices/matter(realism)s.
Source: Das Questões
Institution: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7204093061