La pensée férale

Abstract

Feral are those animals that, having been domesticated, return to live in wildness. Brazilian Philosopher Juliana Fausto uses this biological concept to reinterpret Levi Strauss’ la Pensée Savage. In this famous book the french anthropologist proposed the possibility of a mind still untamed by western civilization. Fausto imagines one step further, questioning what would our thought become if we ever break the chains of domestication, liberate and decolonize our minds: It won’t be a savage thought, but may become a feral thought…La Pensée Férale is fruit of Steegmann Mangrané’s ongoing dialogue with the Brazilian philosopher, a work that blurs the division between animal and vegetal, object and subject, rendering uncanny images whose gaze interpellate us and reinforce that nature is not without sentience or feeling.