UFO
UFO is not a university in a traditional sense—or in any sense. It is a model, continuously revising what a university is or could be. Its goal is to act as a transformative vehicle, capable of moving through impossible spaces and concepts. It operates with complexity, computation, dynamics, ontology, and intelligence, which form the bedrock of the transformative formations that emerge through its behavior and characteristics.
We are living in a time when existing structures and organizations are being stripped down. Their true face is exposed: a lack of care for humanity at their core, built entirely on power and struggle. Our task begins with recognizing this, and understanding ourselves as a force capable of transforming struggle into a different kind of power.
We have, historically, given our power away to a small few. But that no longer makes sense—these figures no longer carry any real organizational value. What is emerging is the possibility for any character to rise into such positions. Not the same positions, but new configurations—new forms. This opens up a global scale of resistance, because the mediatory connections that once held power in place are dissolving through the mutation of existing structures. Not their total destruction, but a selective removal and addition—a mutation that turns them into something far more horrible.
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Posthuman Studies Lab
Magda Vicini

MAGDA VICINI - Magda Vicini - post-doctoral student at Núcleo Diversitas (USP), PhD in
Communication and Semiotics from PUC (SP), Master in Education, Art and History of
Culture. Professor and researcher at the Federal Institute of Paraná Campus Palmas.
The time fragmentation/unification/relativization
Art as existential posthumanism is constant transformation and revelation of multiple others
that are there. It is the "being there", the "dasein", (Heidegger, Gadamer, Indigenous
perspectivism, reciprocity) whose existence is modified as an aesthetic experience - there it is,
there one lives, one lives together.
This artwork is called "Time".
In the clock world, time is not fully perceived. The clock "measures" the hours of our time. But
we don't perceive time, perhaps because we "measure" time. And this same time is happening
in the visible and invisible world ... each one in his time: "[...] time to plant, time to sow, time
to reap [...]" (Ecclesiastes, 3). Nature time experienced by the Kaingang indigenous
communities (Paraná, Brazil): time of the sun, the moon, the earth, the water, the wind, the
clouds, the cooking, the cooling, the boiling, the fire, the hunting, the fishing ... everything has
a meaning and a time of existence.
Time of illness and time of cure, which is measured microscopically, but is similar to the time
of the indigenous nature... we do not have absolute control. Everything has a meaning and a
time of existence.
Earth time, planet time, star time, meteor time, satellite time, whose time distances are
measured in a macroscopic world.
The meaning of each time is defined by human beings, in clock time.
The meaning of each time is defined by beings of nature (including human beings) in the time
of the original peoples.
From the possible micro and macro world, time reveals itself in different ways
The cosmological space reveals the expansion of rational and technological thinking on the
planet under a white, capitalist and socialism vision; the cosmological space of the original
peoples reveals the introspection of perspectivist thinking, intuitive to survival, coexistence,
reciprocity, in Oceania, Asia, North, Central and South America; Europe, Africa.
Hearing the time, feeling the time, being present in all human power when the sun rises, until
the sun sets. Read the stars, the moon, the wind, the waters, the forest, the animals.
Observed by technologies at all times, we are satellites, microscopes, of a planet earth of many
differences, diversities.
I feel these worlds coming closer, for healing, for sadness, for emptiness, for hope, for love, for
the need to survive