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Carlos Eduardo França de Oliveira (UNICENTRO) — 2025-11-17

Volume 16, Número 2, Julho-Dezembro (2025): "Em vida, morte, te sei": olhares interdisciplinares sobre a finitude contemporânea (séculos XX-XXI)

“Em vida, morte, te sei”

Maristela Carneiro (UFMT) — 2025-11-17

Texto de Apresentaçã dos artigos que compõe o dossiê "Em vida, morte, te sei": olhares interdisciplinares sobre a finitude contemporânea (séculos XX-XXI), organizado por Maristela Carneiro (UFMT) e Frederico Tadeu Gondin (UFG). O dossiê reúne uma variedade de estudos de autoria de investigadores/as de diversas geografias, formações e idades que se debruçam acerca da ambiguidade que marca nossa relação com o fenômeno da morte. A morte se mostra mais evidente do que nunca, graças às tecnologias que agora nos conectam globalmente, em tempo real. Incompreendida, silenciada ou temida ao se tratar da experiência pessoal do instante derradeiro, para o qual não há respostas absolutas, a morte reforça laços sociais, orienta ações no presente e o olhar sobre o passado, e movimenta o imaginário quanto às possibilidades do que será (ou não) dos vivos e daqueles que “partiram”. Dissociada dessa experiência, torna-se objeto de consumo que circula quase sem filtros por canais de streaming, lojas e redes sociais na atualidade, viabilizando novas abordagens, desde as mais criativas até aquelas que parecem esvaziar a morte de sentidos. Integram ainda neste número um artigo livre e uma entrevista com Maria Elizia Borges, precursora nos estudos cemiteriais e de arte funerária.

"Deaths That do not Matter"

Danusa Balthazar de Andrade (UFMT) — 2025-11-17

This article analyzes the selective invisibility of animal death in Brazil, articulating the concepts of
biopolitics and necropolitics to understand digital activism. The hypothesis is that state omission and the display
of pain on social media create a regime that privileges certain animal lives to the detriment of others, reinforcing
speciesist hierarchies. The study criticizes the model of animal protection based on emotional appeal and
proposes a public multispecies ethic that recognizes the dignity of all forms of life.

um Carried in the Networks of memore

Julyana cabral araujo — 2025-11-17

This study aims to understand narratives about funeral processions in the rural area of Pinheiro, Maranhão, Brazil. It adopts oral history as the methodological approach, as it enables access to lived experiences and memories of death (Alberti, 2004). It seeks to answer the following question: in what ways do such narratives reveal experiences of living and dying? The study highlights the complexity of death rites as articulated with everyday life, such as the use of hammocks.

The figure of the specter, presences that insist: Ethnographic approaches to disappearances in democracy

Silvia Laura Carlini Comerci (UBA/CONICET - Argentina) — 2025-11-17

En la actualidad las maneras de despedir a un ser cercano que fallece se vieron entrecruzadas con los adelantos tecnológicos. Si bien, aún se conservan algunas prácticas rituales clásicas, se han adicionado otras como las despedidas o las remembranzas póstumas por redes sociales. En este aspecto, esta pesquisa busca reflexionar acerca de los mecanismos actuales que utilizan los grupos sociales para transitar y hacerle frente a la muerte.

Palabras-clave: Muerte-Despedidas-Rituales funerarios-Redes sociales

Eternal Scroll and Grief's Presence on Social Media: Finitude's Challenges in the 21st Century

Márden Cardoso Miranda Hott (UFMG) — 2025-11-17

This article addresses grief in the digital age, where "digital immortality" redefines finitude, causing emotional overload and prolonged suffering. The spectacularization of online grief transforms pain into consumable content, affecting the intimacy of loss. The post-mortem right to be forgotten is discussed as a crucial ethical issue, given the gap in protocols and legislation for digital legacies. It urges the development of humanized policies that reconcile memory, privacy, and dignity, promoting healthy grieving in the 21st century.

Codificar a Ausência

Marcelo Duarte (UFMT) — 2025-11-17

This article analyzes the datafication of the experience of another’s death through the case of Joshua, who employed artificial intelligence to simulate conversations with his deceased fiancée. The research is grounded in John Dewey’s instrumentalism, examining how algorithmic mediation reorganizes the lived experience of absence. The study concludes that the presence of the deceased is technically simulated, transforming finitude into an operable and predictable event, thereby reshaping the contemporary experience of death.

Curtindo a morte

Elisa Gonçalves Rodrigues (UFPA) — 2025-11-17

Death, as a universal experience, finds new mediations and representations on the internet. This article aims to explore user interactions in posts that disseminate obituaries on the internet through Facebook reaction emojis. To this end, through netnography, it was possible to map news on pages that publicized obituaries from various social strata. The results show that the posts mobilize a wide range of emotions and engagements regarding certain deaths and ways of dying. The conclusion points to cybermutirões (collective online mourning efforts) in funeral announcements, distributed widely but unevenly in the virtual environment.

Death as Spectacle

Antonio Hot Pereira de Faria (UNIMONTES) — 2025-11-17

This essay critically analyzes the transformation of death into spectacle within the context of the synoptic society and contemporary digital culture. It explores how violence and human suffering are commodified, amplified by algorithmic engagement logics, and normalized through the constant consumption of brutal imagery. Drawing on authors such as Hannah Arendt, Guy Debord, Susan Sontag, and Thomas Mathiesen, it discusses moral inaction, the dissolution of intimacy in social media, the banality of violence, and the security paradox. The text reflects on the impacts of this phenomenon on collective sensibility, risk perception, and the legitimation of fear-driven policies. It concludes by highlighting the need to rehabilitate empathy, the ethics of seeing, and the symbolic value of life in the face of the spectacle logic that dominates today’s media landscape.

Learning with the dead

Jaimeson Machado Garcia (UNISC) — 2025-11-17

This article critically analyzes the course Agatha Christie: Writing, by BBC Maestro, in which the author is digitally recreated to teach after her death. From this case, it discusses the commodification of absence, the aestheticization of death, and the new regimes of authority in digital culture, proposing a new category related to Jean Baudrillard’s (1991) theory: necrosimulacra.

Corpos que resistem à finitude

Elis Alves dos Santos (UCAM) — 2025-11-17

Abstract:This article analyzes the challenges faced by elderly trans people, highlighting aging as a process of social and symbolic exclusion. Based on the analysis of the web series LGBT+60: Corpos que Resistem, it discusses how digital media act as technologies of memory and resistance. The research adopts a qualitative and netnographic approach, articulating recognition and social justice.

Keywords: aging. transgender identities. finitude. recognition. memory technologies.

Morrer aos 40, morrer ainda menina

Maria de Fatima Rocha da Fonseca (PMRJ) — 2025-11-17

On April 2, 1983, after a coma resulting from anaphylactic shock caused by the anesthetic used during varicose vein surgery, singer Clara Nunes died at the age of forty. The 28-day period during which she was hospitalized in an intensive care unit was extensively covered by the press at the time. Despite her status as a public figure, reading newspapers and magazines from the period reveals some changes in Brazilian society's perception of death. On the other hand, thousands of Brazilians became familiar with the routine of an intensive care unit and a new way of dying, in which patients who had already given up hope had their lives artificially sustained by a machine.

Objetos Parlantes

Rosa Inés Padilla (USFQ - Ecuador) — 2025-11-17

This article analyzes the agency of the everyday objects of deceased people. Who are their guardians now? Why is it important to remember this memory? These are some of the questions that guide this discussion. What does it mean to inhabit? How can we understand life through the lens of objects? These are also questions we have designed to delve deeper into how family and collective memory is constructed. Also, based on several interviews and photographs taken with the aim of understanding how we preserve our loved ones, we might reflect on the common narratives of the people who inhabit a community and, above all, how we might understand the sphere of gender and its role in these narratives. To inhabit a space is to leave a mark, a trail; these people's objects are the guardians of these memories.

Morreu de quê?

Tatiana Guimarães Sardinha Pereira (IPPES) — 2025-11-17

Title – Died of what? Death as a family member and the social construction of passing away

Abstract

The cause of death seals the end of a journey but also contributes to the (in)completeness of a departure. One of the most cherished human perceptions is the recognition of one's finitude. To understand a death, one must consider its circumstances, the characteristics of the victim, and the affected family members. The view of death is a social construct. This article aims to analyze perspectives on life and death and to understand their impacts on the human capacity to survive.

Keywords: Death. Violent Death. Violence and Mourning. Family Mourning.

Do Silêncio ao Gesto

Paloma Barcelos Teixeira (UFES) — 2025-11-17

Considering death as a socially constructed event, this article examines contemporary practices of mourning externalization through the case of a young man's murder in Vitória (ES). The analysis draws on materials from social media, local newspapers, and photographic records. The study observes that public and bodily symbolic manifestations operate as forms of claim-making and remembrance, pointing to transformations in the ways mourning is experienced, shared, and territorialized.

A Quadra 8A e o Lugar da Morte na Estratificação Social Contemporânea

Daniela Veloso de Abreu e Matos (PUC Minas) — 2025-11-17

Este artigo investiga a gestão estatal da morte anônima em Belo Horizonte, demonstrando como a necropolítica opera, por meio da burocracia, na seleção do que a memória deve ou não preservar. A metodologia associa a desconstrução de documentos oficiais à análise material e simbólica do espaço cemiterial. Concluímos que a (des)organização estatal das informações constitui mecanismo ativo de invisibilização. O artigo destina-se a pesquisadores dos seguintes temas: estudos cemiteriais, necropolítica e correlatos.

Palavras-chave: Necropolítica. Burocracia. Necrogovernamentalidade

We agreed not to die: Body, image and the dispute over the meanings of death in museums

Ellen Nicolau (UNIFESP) — 2025-11-17

Death, in its ambiguity, finds in museology a field of tension between silence and exposure. In the realm of anatomy, the body is often reduced to an object, without reflection on its cultural meanings. In a scenario of widespread circulation and digital communication of medical sciences, it is proposed that these spaces become critical arenas, integrating science, ethics, and history to rethink their representations.

A arte de contar histórias sobre vida e morte na mediação com pessoas idosas

Pedro Lucas Oliveira da Silva (ABC do Glória) — 2025-11-17

Being the death a taboo subject in the western society, a research was conducted with a focus group, based in the historical-cultural Psychology, aiming at understanding the role of storytelling about life and death in mediation with elderly people. Results showed that the storytelling of The Duck, the Death and the Tulip (Erlbruch, 2008) expanded the meaning of death, including the perspective of death in life.

Portraits of extreme violence: gore and snuff in the work of Roberto Bolaño

Talita Jordina Rodrigues (UFSC) — 2025-11-17

References to everything related to the literary universe – works, authors, etc. – are frequent in Roberto Bolaño's work. However, a closer look can also identify various representations and references to other products of artistic expression, from cinema to the visual arts. In the work of the same author, figurations of violence are also frequent. The relationship between these last two elements is the theme of this work. Therefore, we propose the observation of representations originating from cinema, photography and the visual arts that appear within Bolaño's prose and that stand out for containing expressions of violence in its most extreme form. As a starting point, we have gore films and snuff videos, genres belonging to the audiovisual medium, but which can be expanded to also include photographic works and visual arts.

Tunga and the poetic of (in)finitude:

Vanessa Seves Deister de Sousa (UEM) — 2025-11-17

This article seeks to reflect upon the matter of the finitude from the visual arts’ research field. It will be carried out a reflection on the specificities and challenges in the academic study of the thematic of death by means of the poetics of the Brazilian artist Tunga. Tunga’s work “Semeando Sereias” (Seeding Sirens – 1987) will be investigated in the light of transdisciplinary approaches, as “poetic game” and as “photographic language”, in dialogue with the contingencies that are inherent to the study of artistic objects.

A pioneer in the study of funerary art in Brazil

Frederico Tadeu Gondim (UFG) — 2025-11-17

Interview granted to the organizers of the Dossier “In life, death, I know you”: interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary finitude (20th-21st centuries)." The ambiguity that marks our relationship with the phenomenon of death is more evident than ever, thanks to technologies that now connect us globally, in real time. Misunderstood, silenced or feared when it comes to the personal experience of the final moment, for which there are no absolute answers, death reinforces social bonds, guides actions in the present and the look at the past, and moves the imagination regarding the possibilities of what will (or will not) be for the living and those who “departed”. Dissociated from this experience, it becomes an object of consumption that circulates almost unfiltered through streaming channels, stores and social networks today, enabling new approaches, from the most creative to those that seem to empty death of meanings. cemetery and funerary art studies, which is why we invited her for this interview.

Dona Xepa (1959)

Nadia Maria Guariza (UNICENTRO) — 2025-11-17

Dona Xepa, which was originally a play (1953), become a film and a soap opera. The success of Dona Xepa on television was so great thet it warranted a remake. However, this article analyzes how the film Dona Xepa (1959) was created based on the play written by Pedro Bloch for the actress Alda Garrido and how the character that the actress created for herself, that of the caricature, influenced the production of the film. In the second parto in the article, the analysis focuses on gender.