War machines and their revolutionary potency

written production as an affirmation of life

Abstract

Considering the revolutionary power and the singularities of the different war machines, we aim to discuss on writing as the object and focus of the present study. Thinking with and from the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and also using analysis tools from Michel Foucault's archeogenealogy, such as a subject, power relations and resistance practices, we envision perceiving and understanding in which way writing can be a resistance practice and life-affirming technique. To this end, we will not launch ourselves into analyzes of a specific materiality privileging a notion or 'concept', but we will sometimes bring enunciative sequences in order to exemplify how the written war machine holds revolutionary and inventive conditions, functioning as a response to the illness conditions and death in the contemporaneity. In this way, we will use the written productions of Manoel de Barros and Luiza Romão because we for that they are legitimate war machines and that they carry out operations as minor literature, each in their own flow, with their own intensities and effects, tracing their political processes and struggles in experimentation games.