"The Moral Condition of Truth Is Imagination": Notes for a Militant Animism

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"THE MORAL CONDITION OF TRUTH IS IMAGINATION": NOTES FOR A COMBAT ANIMISM

"Animism" as the ethics of the Anthropocene—the moment-event in which ethics becomes ontology. Justice as the political condition of truth. The continuous reimagining of the persons/things divide. The cosmopolitics of the "planetariat" as a singularity-of-any-kind. The planetariat as the community that remains.

MÉTIS – Arts and semantics of creation and memory
FAPESP Thematic Project 2020/07886-8
Organized by: USP, UFSCar, UNIFESP, FAPESP, CEstA – Center for Amerindian Studies (University of São Paulo), Guita and José Mindlin Brasiliana Library

August 13, 2026, 4:00 PM
István Jancsó Auditorium
Guita and José Mindlin Brasiliana Library
Rua da Biblioteca, 21, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP

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