Santos Dumont: um poeta a voejar

Abstract

Affiliated to the discourse analysis, as proposed by Michel Pêcheux, we intend to verify the discursivities that are found and confronted in the exhibition “Poeta dos ares, Santos Dumont”, held by the Museum of Tomorrow in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This event was a mobilizer of meanings that historically have been inscribed and spoken elsewhere before and that materialized poetic effects of the work and life of the famous Brazilian inventor, Santos Dumont. We intend to identify the discursive effects put into circulation by his inventions - poetry, which became (with) the body - and understand what displacements and breakdowns the exhibition promoted when undertaking flights hitherto unimaginable for humanity; and, precisely in the unimaginable that we concentrate to deal with the eccentric, persistent and idealistic figure of our inventor. What are the discursive effects of your takeoffs? How did your trajectory transgress the ordinary and inscribe your name in the air with a poet's insignia?