The university and the friendship policy experience

Abstract

The purpose of this writing is to present a proposal for a philosophical analysis of the role of the university and the experience of the politics of friendship. To this end, the present work develops, in a cross-interlocution procedure (Santos, 2015), a philosophical dialogue between the narratives of João Paulo Barreto, four excerpts taken from the live Epistemologia Científica X Epistemologia Indígena, carried out by the Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Filosofia Arandu, from the Federal University of Amazonas – UFAM, in addition to six selected excerpts from the interview given to Revista Antropologia, from São Paulo. The first indigenous doctor in anthropology from UFAM talks about his journey as an indigenous researcher and his study methods. For the analysis, we appropriated the theoretical assumptions of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Linda Smith, among others. Divided into five topics, in addition to the introduction, the analysis is guided by two research questions: 1) what conditions of production and events were constructed so that Barreto was able to address the relationships between scientific epistemology What is the university today? 2) what relationships between knowledge-power-resistance were constructed or deconstructed, in the establishment of what we call discursive (dis)order or insurgency of knowledge, other than hegemonic knowledge as a science? Our considerations point to an invitation to the politics of friendship in the possibility of the existence of differences.

Key words: University; Deployment; Disdeployment; Friendship Policy.