Desear Desobedecer

This book is an essay in phenomenology and anthropology -and even a poetics- of lifting gestures. It interrogates the bodies with the psyche through the deep, paradoxical, dialectical link that is established between desire and memory. Just as there is a "what looks at us" beyond "what we think we are", perhaps there is also a "what lifts us" beyond "what we think we are". It is a question raised at the beginning -or within- of our opinions or partisan actions: a question, then, raised to gestures and political imaginations. An issue raised to the power to rise, even when power is not in sight. That potency is indestructible, like desire itself. It is a power to disobey. It is so inventive that it deserves attention that is both precise (because the singular, in this case, tells us more than the universal) and erratic (because the uprisings arise at times, in places and at scales where they were not expected).