Pivô Boulevard’s will host, next Wednesday (October 8), at 7pm, the launch of the book Minor Futures: philosophies of time and architectures of the world by professor, essayist, and PhD in Latin American Literature Luz Horne. The launch will be followed by a wandering-conversation with the author, professor Paola Berenstein, and researcher Ramon Martins.

Published in Brazil by n-1 edições, Minor Futures: philosophies of time and architectures of the world employs words and images as philosophical devices to reflect on time and space. Through the analysis of short stories, novels, essays, travel books, theoretical fictions, anthropological experiences, art exhibitions, curatorial strategies, architecture, and Brazilian 20th- and 21st-century cinema, it explores the knot that binds words and images to time and materiality.

Luz Horne is an essayist, Associate Professor, and Director of the “PhD in Literature and Cultural Criticism” at the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. She studied Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and obtained her PhD in Latin American Literature from Yale University. Her work examines the intersection between epistemology and aesthetics, and between image and word, with research projects linked to ecocriticism, new philosophical materialisms, and Brazilian and Latin American literature, visual arts, and documentary cinema.

Paola Berenstein is Full Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Federal University of Bahia, and coordinator of the research group Laboratório Urbano. She is the author of books such as Les favelas de Rio (2001), Estética da Ginga (2001), and Esthétique des favelas (2003).

Ramon Martins is a researcher with an interdisciplinary background: he holds a degree in Product Design, a Master’s in Architecture and Urbanism, and is currently pursuing a PhD in the same field at the Federal University of Bahia. He works as Program Manager at Pivô, where he contributes to curating and producing artistic and cultural projects.

📍 Book launch: Minor Futures and conversation with the author, Paola Berenstein, and Ramon Martins
October 8, Wednesday
7pm
Pivô Boulevard – Rua Boulevard Suíço, 11A
Free admission