Decolonizar o corpo: por uma cosmovisão da escuta – sonho e criação como estratégias para adiar o fim do mundo
Revista Música December 28, 2025 DOI: 10.11606/issn.2238-7625.rm.2025.242642 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that listening can function as a decolonizing practice and a mode of existence that transcends body-mind and subject-object dichotomies. Proposes a "cosmovision of listening," or "cosmolistening," spanning the visible and invisible, human and nonhuman, material and immaterial, and contends that dream and creation can restore presence and connection to art and life. |
Abstract
This article proposes a reflection on listening as a practice of decolonizing the body and thought. Drawing from a near-death experience in which sound and vibration manifested as the final forms of consciousness, the study investigates listening not merely as a perceptual act, but as a mode of existence, a way of relating to the world that transcends the dichotomy between body and mind, subject and object. Inspired by a dream that gave rise to an artistic-scientific project conceived as a wearable interface and art installation, the article seeks to articulate body, dream, and technology through the perspective of a “cosmovision of listening,” understood here as expanded listening, or, in other terms, a cosmolistening: of the visible and the invisible, the human and the nonhuman, the material and the immaterial. Grounded in authors such as Krenak (2019), Maturana and Dávila (2018), Deleuze and Guattari (1992), Santaella (2001), Schafer (1969), Oliveros (2005), Schaeffer (1966), among others, the article suggests that, by invoking the sensible, dream and the act of creation are powerful strategies for restoring to art and life their dimension of presence and connection with the whole, through a listening of the self and of the world.