Abandoned territories: reappropriation of infrastructure works from Deleuze, Guattari and Derrida

Abstract

Based on the concept of territory, the article investigates the possible ways of resignifying urban infrastructure works. Infrastructure works such as viaducts, walkways, staircases, train tracks, subway stations and tunnels are characterized as public instruments that enable connections and flows for the efficient functioning of cities. Anticipating greater quality in the form of territorial occupation, can infrastructure works, in addition to technical spaces with specific functions, become ethical, citizenship and otherness devices? The article, through thinkers such as Deleuze, Guattari and Derrida, aims to deconstruct the concepts of origin into new conceptual attributes. In a contextual way, the research adapts the method of conceptual analysis, presenting a propositional framework – concept of origin, concept of interest and possible consequences. On the one hand, the research brings Deleuze and Guattari closer to these constructions of public character through concepts such as: organism, rhizome, stratum and functional body. On the other hand, it approaches Jacques Derrida from the idea of ​​receptacle, in a kind of free and discursive territory, where the language activated by another way of thinking decenters and reconstructs the object in multiple interpretations, deconstructing them. The text is imagetically reinforced by occupations of singular and representative public works of Porto Alegre (Brazil).