Por uma engenharia queermica: correlações, (re)aproximações e trans-escrevivências nos limites das fronteiras da diferenciação

Abstract

By understanding the (ultra)specialization of engineering and its distancing from the human and social sciences, as well as the masculinizing nature of exact science courses as relevant issues for current socio-scientific debates, we aim to propose an ethics of entanglement – a miscible mixture between so-called heterogeneous and opposing categories: the "self" and the "other", humanities and engineering, the university and the queer; in search of possibilities to build a "queermical" engineering. Thus, we bet on a exploratory research with a qualitative approach, structured in two stages: a literature review to identify and highlight intersections between different fields of knowledge; and the construction of an autobiographical narrative to analyze, based on the trans-writings ( from lived experiences) of a dissident fluid-body, the coercive, differentiating, and masculinizing mechanisms present throughout its undergraduate trajectory in Chemical Engineering at UFPB. The metaphors and correlations drawn between gender and queer studies and transport phenomena allow us to see the fluid-body not as a static entity but as something in constant interaction with its social, cultural, and political environment. These correlations enrich the understanding of identity/difference and power flows, demonstrating that, as in physical systems, the boundaries that delineate the fluid-body (and its allocations between, within, outside, and through markers of differentiation) are dynamic, mutable, and permeable, allowing for constant exchanges, transformations, and subversions. In summary, we conceive this work as a way to hack this space, which proves hostile to our presence and growth, and through this lens, we hope to enable transgressive spaces for being/doing science that affects its surroundings in the face of an uncritical engineering education.