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These are not thematic axes. They are not categories or labels.

They are fields of tension. Threads that run through what I write, what I archive, what I listen to and what I build. They do not seek to order — they seek to connect. They appear, disappear, intertwine. They change shape. They compose each other.

Here are the territories I inhabit when I think. They do not run in a straight line. There is no single map. There are networks, leaps, cracks, resonances. Each of these themes unfolds in texts, objects, instruments, archives, publications, sounds.

You are invited to tour. To link. To get lost. To read as you walk: without a destination, but with meaning.

1. Insurgent Epistemologies and Decolonialism

Displaced, denied, illegible knowledge. Produced and remembered by force. Thought from the South, from the margins and from undocumented cries. What does not fit in the archive. Memory without asking permission.

Key ideas

The right to be forgotten as an epistemic and non-legalistic gesture.
Broken archives and forced memories: what is remembered by pain, not by design.
Structural silences and bodies without metadata: the traces of non-registration.
Memoricide as a policy of erasure: killing the possibility of remembering.
The oral as a living archive: knowledge that breathes off paper.
Epistemic critique as insurrection: questioning what is taken for granted.
Insurgent epistemologies and knowledge from the South: forms of knowledge that do not fit in the academy.
Documented denial and epistemic invisibilization: when the archive confirms its own absence.
Filing without permission: writing from the margin, without requesting legitimacy.

2. Critical Semantics and Composting of Archives and Libraries

Composting "dead" libraries and archives so that something different can emerge from them: transforming rigid structures into living, dynamic systems capable of nurturing new forms of knowledge. Knowledge technologies serving other logics based on connectivity, decentralization, and respect for epistemological diversity. Unexpected connections, unsuspected weavings. Modeling the world without replicating its violence, building data architectures that acknowledge power, context, and resistance.

Key ideas

To classify is to decide what has value — and what does not deserve to be remembered.
Ontologies as tools of power or resistance: to name is to draw borders.
From control to compost: taxonomies that decompose to nurture other knowledge.
Linked data as narratives, not as fixed structures: semantics at the service of storytelling.
Semantic mycelia: living, decentralized, rhizomatic systems — the logic of the fungus versus that of the archive.
Catalographic resistance: disobeying the rules to allow the margins to speak.
Critical models of documentation: semantics that do not neutralize, but take a position.
Post-control classification: filing without hierarchizing, without totalizing, without structural violence.
Semantic subversion: RDF, metadata and taxonomies as tactical tools of dissent.

3. Weaving of Memories and Meanings to Produce New Knowledge.

Weaving with memories, residues and gestures. Joining fragments to build something bigger. Making objects, publications and tools with memory inside. It is not about representing: it is about embodying. Each form is also a way of knowing.

Key ideas

Critical edition as an artisanal gesture, not as a publishing product.
Objects that carry memory: book-boxes, tools with history, performative publications.
Design as storytelling: form as part of the message.
Embodied memory: that which is transmitted by touch, use, care.
Publishing without asking permission: structures outside the mainstream.
Object-books as territories: when the support also tells its story.
Semantic design: not only how you see, but how you think about what you see.
Performative files: forms that only exist when they are activated, touched, used.
Tools with a history: minor technologies that save footprints, not just functions.
Material narratives: when knowledge is embodied in a fold, a thread, a scar.

4. Margins, Epistemic Justice and Othered Documents

Othered knowledge and memories. Documents that are not named. Orality, graffiti, basketry, ceramics, textiles, hairstyles, territory: paperless archives. The equality of knowledge systems. Ecologies of knowledge, non-hegemonic epistemic networks. To work in the margins is to produce center.

Key ideas

Documenting without writing: non-textual recording technologies.
Epistemic justice as redistribution of the right to name, remember, legitimize.
Territories and bodies as living archives.
The "other" as an origin, not as an exception.
From the crack another map can be drawn.
The expanded archive: baskets, songs, rituals, graffiti, paths.
Unwritten documents: situated knowledge that inhabits other supports.
Orality and performativity as legitimate forms of archiving.
Practices outside the norm: embodied pedagogies, vernacular languages, non-archival memories.
Epistemological rights: the right to remember differently, to forget differently, to narrate from another place.

5. Sounds and Silences

Musical instruments as archives. Sound territories as libraries. Songs, noises, echoes, vibrations: ways of recording the unspeakable. And the silences that scream. Listening is also a form of archiving.

Key ideas

Sound as a form of memory and embodied knowledge.
Traditional instruments as living documentary technologies.
Soundscapes as territorial archives.
Orality not as a support, but as a complete episteme.
Silence is not emptiness: it is resistance, mourning, frontier.
Acoustic memory as a paperless form of transmission.
Drums, flutes, ritual chants: vernacular sound technologies.
Insurgent sound libraries: collections that do not ask permission to sound.
The archives of silence: what is silenced, what could not be said, what would hurt to hear.
Documenting the ineffable: vibrations, echoes, resonances, absences.