Science Is Written with Emotion

Inflections on the Importance of Confidence and Fear in (Res)existing in the Present

Abstract

This article seeks to be present with time, emotion, science and writing, bringing with it a bricolage of theory and praxis to your eyes and fingers. In terms of theory, it bricolates a sociology of emotions, through which it becomes possible to reflect on how we experience time in the present, whether at an individual (micro) or collective (macro) level. In terms of praxis, it bricolates transdiciplinarity, as the hands that wrote it are hands molded by the field of art—hands that deal with the form of writing while also handling the potentialities of other fields, such as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. The resulting present is a stream of writing—a continual series of things, both concrete and abstract, somehow interconnected. This article aims to show you, now, in the present, the importance of confidence and fear, and the power that these emotions carry in regard to social motion and the materialization of science, which occurs through writing. This article is also an invitation to play with the form of words, which form theories over time; it is only through such play that we will develop, in the present, a wave of scientists who are more present, more aware and more (re)existent.