NOTES ON QUEER PEDAGOGY

Abstract

This essay seeks to think with Corpo Elétrico (2017), a movie by Marcelo Caetano, detailing what it calls queer pedagogy. The text figure a set of biographical notes from the tangle of the first-person plural: the authors' relationship as friends, teacher and student, but also the intersections of their experiences as gay men from small towns with diagnoses of high skills and generalized anxiety disorder, among other aspects that escape the effectiveness of the time of the pedagogical discourse. Alternative ways of theorizing the time and the sensibility are proposed through intensities such as adhesiveness, the persistent ambivalences of encounters between bodies and the erotic friction of affections that do not allow to be included or accepted in the history of pedagogical ideas. Thus, the text traces a queer pedagogy as the name to describe a modality of affective education that shakes the domain of subjectivity and aesthetically contemplates existence without limiting it to notions of beauty, taste and the sublime. Connecting to the unreasonableness of the sensitive, this essay presents the challenges that the film makes to think about the chrononormative presumptions of education that tend to abound when it comes to political projects and the formation of subjects.