Writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. Goldsmiths University of London alumni: Politics Department (MA in Art & Politics). Editor of the anthology on Brazilian Antropofagia from an anthropological perspective: The Forest and The School/ Where to Sit at the Dinner Table? (Archive Books; 2015). Guest-editor of e-flux Journal's Supercomunnity Issue (e-flux; 2015). Author of two short story collections, most recently Morrer na América (Arranha-Céus and Kunsthalle Lissabon; 2017).
Short story mixing autofiction with science fiction, about YWY, a futuristic native android chara... more Short story mixing autofiction with science fiction, about YWY, a futuristic native android character, the notion of "geomimicry" between Rio de Janeiro and Hong Kong/Guangzhou, and the modern colonial history of trade connecting Europe, Brazil, and the Pearl River Delta.
Artigo sobre epigenética, contaminação ambiental e disruptores endócrinos, mapeando uma breve his... more Artigo sobre epigenética, contaminação ambiental e disruptores endócrinos, mapeando uma breve história tecnociêntifica da imunologia e da endocrinologia como ciências de uma porosidade corpo/ambiente. Aborda assuntos como a administração de hormonas, ecologia, cosmopolítica, e teoria de género (trans não-binária).
Essay on the notion of futurity, through the lens of science fiction, anthropology, and decolonia... more Essay on the notion of futurity, through the lens of science fiction, anthropology, and decolonial thought. The article proposes the notion of "parallel futures" to think an anthropology of futures beyond the "one future" imposed by modernity.
"...it is important to remember that some futures never went anywhere—they were not allowed to—an... more "...it is important to remember that some futures never went anywhere—they were not allowed to—and yet they survive. These are futures that have been suppressed and canceled by colonial power, and that only now, between the cracks of this single dominant modernity, are finding their way towards visibility. I’m talking about parallel futures. By this I mean futures that have always been present, but that, together with the worlds they belong to, have been forced into one future only. Parallel futures push us to think the future sideways, rather than ahead, fomenting those future worlds that are already here, but which continue to be sidelined and made invisible. And that is something altogether different than sitting around waiting for the future to arrive."
Essay on multinaturalism and the historical and ontological meaning of the "human" from an anthro... more Essay on multinaturalism and the historical and ontological meaning of the "human" from an anthropological and Amerindian point of view. Published in Elemental Propositions, eds. Ashkan Sepahvand et al. Beirut: Sursock Art Museum (2016).
Article for The Baffler magazine (New York) about Sophia, a humanoid robot granted citizenship by... more Article for The Baffler magazine (New York) about Sophia, a humanoid robot granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia in 2017.
Pedro Neves Marques addresses the hangover in relation to the ideology of progress as translated ... more Pedro Neves Marques addresses the hangover in relation to the ideology of progress as translated into the concept of desenvolvimentismo ("developmentism") in Brazil, within the nascent neoliberal right of South America. In doing so, Neves Marques analyzes the work of artist Beto Shwafaty and architect Paulo Tavares's architectural research into the Amazon region and beyond. ← Prev
Apocalypsis theme for e-flux jornal 65 the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Biennale 2015, gue... more Apocalypsis theme for e-flux jornal 65 the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Biennale 2015, guest-edited by Pedro Neves Marques. Contributors include: Jimmie Durham, Adrian Lahoud, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski, Lesley Green, Jon Rich, Rory Rowan, Ben Woodard, and Marisol de la Cadena.
Artigo para o jornal português, Público, Dezembro 2015, no âmbito do tema "Luz" comissariado por ... more Artigo para o jornal português, Público, Dezembro 2015, no âmbito do tema "Luz" comissariado por Pedro Lapa (Museu Colecção Berardo).
Breve texto sobre os limites e desafios à imagem, e ao cineasta, perante as transformações em curso no regime de visibilidade moderno, no seu confronto com outras ontologias da imagem (América Indígena ou tecnologia pós-humana).
Editorial essay for e-flux journal nr. 65, the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Art Biennial 2... more Editorial essay for e-flux journal nr. 65, the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Art Biennial 2015. See http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/topics/apocalypsis/
Amerindian cosmogonies confront us with two counter-intuitive reversals of modernity’s teleology: that the apocalypse has already happened in the past, and that everything is human. These are vital reversals, for aren’t precisely these categories of time and subjecthood now called into question by the increasing collapse of scales and agencies—of the supposed tameness of nature and the productive agitation of culture in our own societies?
A short version of the introduction to the book The Forest and The School/ Where to sit at the di... more A short version of the introduction to the book The Forest and The School/ Where to sit at the dinner table? (2014-15), published by Kadist Foundation.
An essay on Antropofagia in Brazil in its relations with Amerindian thought, anthropology, and ecological struggles in the region today. Rather than its more traditional aesthetic or artistic history, this article, following the anthropological work of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Tânia Stolze Lima, and others, understands it as a relational ontological moment, between humans and/or nonhumans. It also addresses little explored issues of technology and species thinking in the Brazilian modernist vanguard.
Introduction to the anthology "The Forest and The School: Where to Sit at the Dinner Table?", ed.... more Introduction to the anthology "The Forest and The School: Where to Sit at the Dinner Table?", ed. Pedro Neves Marques (Berlin and Cologne; Archive Books and Akademie der Kunste der Welt-Koln, 2014-15). http://www.archivebooks.org/pages-ab-marques.htm
This is an anthology on the brazilian aesthetic and philosophical tradition of "Antropofagia", with a particular focus on its historical and cosmopolitical relations with Amerindian thought, anthropology, and current ecological struggles in the region. The book delineates a cosmopolitical, rather than artistic, genealogy of Antropofagia. The book reflects on cannibalism as a moment of ontological collapse and negotiation, expanding the history of Antropofagia through its own writings into issues such as species thinking, technology, ontology, and visions of nature.
With texts and contributions from Hans Staden, Jean de Lery, Michel de Montaigne, James Frazer, Oswald de Andrade, Flávio de Carvalho, Raul Bopp, Pierre Clastres, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Félix Guattari, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Davi Kopenawa, Tânia Stolze Lima, Paulo Tavares, Jean Tible, Giuseppe Cocco, Alexandre Nodari, Suely Rolnik, among others.
Beyond its ecological capital critique, The Limits to Growth, a MIT lead, Club of Rome funded rep... more Beyond its ecological capital critique, The Limits to Growth, a MIT lead, Club of Rome funded report on the human environment published in 1972 and presented at the first “United Nations Conference on the Human Environment,” may have contributed both to the burocratization of ecological struggles and to the probabilistic enhancement of computational capitalism at the turn of the century. This essay traces those economic impacts, analysing its social and ecological ramifications in the management of life and the environment.
Short story mixing autofiction with science fiction, about YWY, a futuristic native android chara... more Short story mixing autofiction with science fiction, about YWY, a futuristic native android character, the notion of "geomimicry" between Rio de Janeiro and Hong Kong/Guangzhou, and the modern colonial history of trade connecting Europe, Brazil, and the Pearl River Delta.
Artigo sobre epigenética, contaminação ambiental e disruptores endócrinos, mapeando uma breve his... more Artigo sobre epigenética, contaminação ambiental e disruptores endócrinos, mapeando uma breve história tecnociêntifica da imunologia e da endocrinologia como ciências de uma porosidade corpo/ambiente. Aborda assuntos como a administração de hormonas, ecologia, cosmopolítica, e teoria de género (trans não-binária).
Essay on the notion of futurity, through the lens of science fiction, anthropology, and decolonia... more Essay on the notion of futurity, through the lens of science fiction, anthropology, and decolonial thought. The article proposes the notion of "parallel futures" to think an anthropology of futures beyond the "one future" imposed by modernity.
"...it is important to remember that some futures never went anywhere—they were not allowed to—an... more "...it is important to remember that some futures never went anywhere—they were not allowed to—and yet they survive. These are futures that have been suppressed and canceled by colonial power, and that only now, between the cracks of this single dominant modernity, are finding their way towards visibility. I’m talking about parallel futures. By this I mean futures that have always been present, but that, together with the worlds they belong to, have been forced into one future only. Parallel futures push us to think the future sideways, rather than ahead, fomenting those future worlds that are already here, but which continue to be sidelined and made invisible. And that is something altogether different than sitting around waiting for the future to arrive."
Essay on multinaturalism and the historical and ontological meaning of the "human" from an anthro... more Essay on multinaturalism and the historical and ontological meaning of the "human" from an anthropological and Amerindian point of view. Published in Elemental Propositions, eds. Ashkan Sepahvand et al. Beirut: Sursock Art Museum (2016).
Article for The Baffler magazine (New York) about Sophia, a humanoid robot granted citizenship by... more Article for The Baffler magazine (New York) about Sophia, a humanoid robot granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia in 2017.
Pedro Neves Marques addresses the hangover in relation to the ideology of progress as translated ... more Pedro Neves Marques addresses the hangover in relation to the ideology of progress as translated into the concept of desenvolvimentismo ("developmentism") in Brazil, within the nascent neoliberal right of South America. In doing so, Neves Marques analyzes the work of artist Beto Shwafaty and architect Paulo Tavares's architectural research into the Amazon region and beyond. ← Prev
Apocalypsis theme for e-flux jornal 65 the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Biennale 2015, gue... more Apocalypsis theme for e-flux jornal 65 the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Biennale 2015, guest-edited by Pedro Neves Marques. Contributors include: Jimmie Durham, Adrian Lahoud, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski, Lesley Green, Jon Rich, Rory Rowan, Ben Woodard, and Marisol de la Cadena.
Artigo para o jornal português, Público, Dezembro 2015, no âmbito do tema "Luz" comissariado por ... more Artigo para o jornal português, Público, Dezembro 2015, no âmbito do tema "Luz" comissariado por Pedro Lapa (Museu Colecção Berardo).
Breve texto sobre os limites e desafios à imagem, e ao cineasta, perante as transformações em curso no regime de visibilidade moderno, no seu confronto com outras ontologias da imagem (América Indígena ou tecnologia pós-humana).
Editorial essay for e-flux journal nr. 65, the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Art Biennial 2... more Editorial essay for e-flux journal nr. 65, the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Art Biennial 2015. See http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/topics/apocalypsis/
Amerindian cosmogonies confront us with two counter-intuitive reversals of modernity’s teleology: that the apocalypse has already happened in the past, and that everything is human. These are vital reversals, for aren’t precisely these categories of time and subjecthood now called into question by the increasing collapse of scales and agencies—of the supposed tameness of nature and the productive agitation of culture in our own societies?
A short version of the introduction to the book The Forest and The School/ Where to sit at the di... more A short version of the introduction to the book The Forest and The School/ Where to sit at the dinner table? (2014-15), published by Kadist Foundation.
An essay on Antropofagia in Brazil in its relations with Amerindian thought, anthropology, and ecological struggles in the region today. Rather than its more traditional aesthetic or artistic history, this article, following the anthropological work of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Tânia Stolze Lima, and others, understands it as a relational ontological moment, between humans and/or nonhumans. It also addresses little explored issues of technology and species thinking in the Brazilian modernist vanguard.
Introduction to the anthology "The Forest and The School: Where to Sit at the Dinner Table?", ed.... more Introduction to the anthology "The Forest and The School: Where to Sit at the Dinner Table?", ed. Pedro Neves Marques (Berlin and Cologne; Archive Books and Akademie der Kunste der Welt-Koln, 2014-15). http://www.archivebooks.org/pages-ab-marques.htm
This is an anthology on the brazilian aesthetic and philosophical tradition of "Antropofagia", with a particular focus on its historical and cosmopolitical relations with Amerindian thought, anthropology, and current ecological struggles in the region. The book delineates a cosmopolitical, rather than artistic, genealogy of Antropofagia. The book reflects on cannibalism as a moment of ontological collapse and negotiation, expanding the history of Antropofagia through its own writings into issues such as species thinking, technology, ontology, and visions of nature.
With texts and contributions from Hans Staden, Jean de Lery, Michel de Montaigne, James Frazer, Oswald de Andrade, Flávio de Carvalho, Raul Bopp, Pierre Clastres, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Félix Guattari, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Davi Kopenawa, Tânia Stolze Lima, Paulo Tavares, Jean Tible, Giuseppe Cocco, Alexandre Nodari, Suely Rolnik, among others.
Beyond its ecological capital critique, The Limits to Growth, a MIT lead, Club of Rome funded rep... more Beyond its ecological capital critique, The Limits to Growth, a MIT lead, Club of Rome funded report on the human environment published in 1972 and presented at the first “United Nations Conference on the Human Environment,” may have contributed both to the burocratization of ecological struggles and to the probabilistic enhancement of computational capitalism at the turn of the century. This essay traces those economic impacts, analysing its social and ecological ramifications in the management of life and the environment.
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Published in Elemental Propositions, eds. Ashkan Sepahvand et al. Beirut: Sursock Art Museum (2016).
Thanks to e-flux and the e-flux team.
Breve texto sobre os limites e desafios à imagem, e ao cineasta, perante as transformações em curso no regime de visibilidade moderno, no seu confronto com outras ontologias da imagem (América Indígena ou tecnologia pós-humana).
Amerindian cosmogonies confront us with two counter-intuitive reversals of modernity’s teleology: that the apocalypse has already happened in the past, and that everything is human. These are vital reversals, for aren’t precisely these categories of time and subjecthood now called into question by the increasing collapse of scales and agencies—of the supposed tameness of nature and the productive agitation of culture in our own societies?
An essay on Antropofagia in Brazil in its relations with Amerindian thought, anthropology, and ecological struggles in the region today. Rather than its more traditional aesthetic or artistic history, this article, following the anthropological work of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Tânia Stolze Lima, and others, understands it as a relational ontological moment, between humans and/or nonhumans. It also addresses little explored issues of technology and species thinking in the Brazilian modernist vanguard.
This is an anthology on the brazilian aesthetic and philosophical tradition of "Antropofagia", with a particular focus on its historical and cosmopolitical relations with Amerindian thought, anthropology, and current ecological struggles in the region. The book delineates a cosmopolitical, rather than artistic, genealogy of Antropofagia. The book reflects on cannibalism as a moment of ontological collapse and negotiation, expanding the history of Antropofagia through its own writings into issues such as species thinking, technology, ontology, and visions of nature.
With texts and contributions from Hans Staden, Jean de Lery, Michel de Montaigne, James Frazer, Oswald de Andrade, Flávio de Carvalho, Raul Bopp, Pierre Clastres, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Félix Guattari, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Davi Kopenawa, Tânia Stolze Lima, Paulo Tavares, Jean Tible, Giuseppe Cocco, Alexandre Nodari, Suely Rolnik, among others.
Published in Elemental Propositions, eds. Ashkan Sepahvand et al. Beirut: Sursock Art Museum (2016).
Thanks to e-flux and the e-flux team.
Breve texto sobre os limites e desafios à imagem, e ao cineasta, perante as transformações em curso no regime de visibilidade moderno, no seu confronto com outras ontologias da imagem (América Indígena ou tecnologia pós-humana).
Amerindian cosmogonies confront us with two counter-intuitive reversals of modernity’s teleology: that the apocalypse has already happened in the past, and that everything is human. These are vital reversals, for aren’t precisely these categories of time and subjecthood now called into question by the increasing collapse of scales and agencies—of the supposed tameness of nature and the productive agitation of culture in our own societies?
An essay on Antropofagia in Brazil in its relations with Amerindian thought, anthropology, and ecological struggles in the region today. Rather than its more traditional aesthetic or artistic history, this article, following the anthropological work of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Tânia Stolze Lima, and others, understands it as a relational ontological moment, between humans and/or nonhumans. It also addresses little explored issues of technology and species thinking in the Brazilian modernist vanguard.
This is an anthology on the brazilian aesthetic and philosophical tradition of "Antropofagia", with a particular focus on its historical and cosmopolitical relations with Amerindian thought, anthropology, and current ecological struggles in the region. The book delineates a cosmopolitical, rather than artistic, genealogy of Antropofagia. The book reflects on cannibalism as a moment of ontological collapse and negotiation, expanding the history of Antropofagia through its own writings into issues such as species thinking, technology, ontology, and visions of nature.
With texts and contributions from Hans Staden, Jean de Lery, Michel de Montaigne, James Frazer, Oswald de Andrade, Flávio de Carvalho, Raul Bopp, Pierre Clastres, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Félix Guattari, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Davi Kopenawa, Tânia Stolze Lima, Paulo Tavares, Jean Tible, Giuseppe Cocco, Alexandre Nodari, Suely Rolnik, among others.