Memory and dispersonification in social experiments: anthropological physics and technoxamanic ebós

Abstract

Both mythological and hacker histories have recognized roles for self- dismantling: it protects the messenger, facilitates the detachment from the self-image, is an artistic technique, etc. Brazil has an evident part in this context, for it proclaims religious freedom since the colonization and beforehand (through ecumenical natives), and holds a renowned and visceral hacker trace: the kludge culture (aka. ’cultura da gambiarra’). This article exposes this legacy by two means: 1) the description of social experiments made by many participants at once; 2) memorials of images, videos, texts, music, webpages, groups, avatars/nicks/pseudonyms, presentations, etc. This collection can be accessed in the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/177946082897310/. This text is itself an experiment, and will be fed back to the community for comments before publishing, as usual with any anthropological physics experiment. The materials herein are no secret, and are usually unpublished, although most of it is not bind to a DOI or an ISBN/ISSN. Further directions are given as seminal ideas because next steps will be given by the community upon diverse interests and context stonework.