Floods of 2024: reflections and inflections to delay the ends of other worlds

reflexões e inflexões para adiar fins de mundos outros

Abstract

This theoretical essay proposes a critical analysis of the floods that hit Rio Grande do Sul in 2024, articulating socio-environmental, racial, and political elements with the structures of neoliberal capitalism and coloniality. The text problematizes the notion of “natural disaster,” understanding it as an expression of historical processes of dispossession and inequality of the “others” of humanity. This work reflects on the “capitalocene,” the “becoming-black,” and the production of the others of humanity in the “eye of the ends of the world.” The text arises from an essayistic texture that intertwines critical analysis and experiential sensitivity, positioning writing as a tool of resistance and dispute of ways of living, narrating, and producing other worlds in the face of crises manufactured by the capitalist-colonial system.