Daniely Félix Da Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 182579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniely Félix Da Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniely Félix |
| FAMILY NAME | Da Silva |
| SIGNATURE | DA SILVA D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2618-0025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 348 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Ancestral claims
This is an initial mapping of the elements that must be in place for a discursive presentation of current global catastrophes-climate crisis, migration, pandemics, and criminalization-that generates a political response rather than the apathy and cruelty that abounds. The focus is on the intuitive, where, to sense with 'the body' and with 'the mind' are indistinguishable; where sensation, intuition, imagination come together. The pivotal question…
Untitled (Notes on Fascism This Time)
This is a short commentary on the relevance of Jair Bolsonaro for the critical theorizing of the political. It considers the resurfacing of fascism in the past decade or as the manifestation of a political form which is consistent with the mode of thinking that nourishes the liberal political architecture. It does so by discussing key philosophical, critical, and anticolonial formulations which indicate as present the elements that allow for the …
Response
Unpayable Debt seeks to intervene in the collaborative task of assembling of a whole other analytical apparatus and political program. As a composition, it works in that moment. It does some of the groundwork necessary for designing the kind of shift in thinking needed for addressing what this global moment demands from us. In this response to the comments from readers who share in the same project, I highlight how, because the centrality of thin…
Another Image of Existence
Since 2015/2016, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Valentina Desideri have been engaging in a joint practice of so-called Poethical Readings, a device that engages the poetic and the ethical at the limits of the epistemology and ontology of the modern Subject. In this interview, Ferreira da Silva and Desideri provide insight into the singular and theatrical dynamics of Poetical Readings, as well as The Sensing Salon, a format for the collective exerci…
A Q&A with Denise Ferreira da Silva
The following exchange took place during the Question and Answer period following Denise Ferreira da Silva's (DFdS) talk, "Negative Accumulation, or That Which Happens without Time." The talk was given digitally on 25 January 2022 as part of Relative Time/Little Time , a speaker series designed collaboratively by Dutch artist duo Bik Van der Pol and Mosaic . The Question and Answer session was moderated by Mosaic Editor Shepherd Steiner (SS
After it's all said
Reading the Dead
Pensamento fractal [trad. de Mariana Dos Santos Faciulli e Nicolau Gayão]
Tradução de Fractal Thinking, de Denise Ferreira da Silva
Em estado bruto
Nesse texto, publicado originalmente na revista e-flux [n° 93, setembro de 2018], Denise Ferreira da Silva delineia aquilo que define como uma interpretação poética, negra e feminista do trabalho de arte Majmua, de Madiha Sikander. Recusando a tradição moderna do discurso crítico, a autora busca, em vez do paradigma da abordagem analítica e a atitude de subsumir o trabalho de arte à categoria dos conceitos, a aproximação a uma matéria, por assim …
Hacking the Subject
Hacking the SubjectBlack Feminism and Refusal beyond the Limits of Critique Denise Ferreira da Silva What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow parameters of change are possible and allowable. Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of differenc…
The Racial Limits of Social Justice
Denise Ferreira da Silva, The Racial Limits of Social Justice: The Ruse of Equality of Opportunity and the Global Affirmative Action Mandate, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2016), pp. 184-209
Before Man
Globality
Extraordinary times
Mapeamento participativo do uso dos recursos naturais e conhecimento tradicional sobre ecologia de Quelônios na Várzea do Rio Purus, Brasil (Paper 294)
Na Amazônia, a captura de quelônios pelos indígenas é muito anterior à conquista européia. O estudo do saber popular que é usado na produção em pequena escala pode contribuir para, compreender como os recursos naturais no caso, os quelônios são explorados. O presente estudo foi realizado em três comunidades (São Sebastião, Fazenda e Beabá) da Reserva Biológica do Abufari (RBA), localizada no município de Tapauá, Amazonas, Brasil. Esta reserva per…
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt:The Racial Logic of Global Capitalism-An Introduction Paula Chakravartty (bio) and Denise Ferreira da Silva (bio) I could feel the knife in my hand, still slippery with perspiration. A Slave was a slave. Anything could be done to her. And Rufus was Rufus-erratic, alternately generous and vicious. I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover . . . …
Roundtable on Eve Darian-Smith, Religion, Race, Rights
Toward a Global Idea of Race
In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Look…
Uses and Taboos of Turtles and Tortoises Along Rio Negro, Amazon Basin
Chelonians (turtles and tortoises) of the Amazon Basin have constituted a source of food for native populations since pre-Columbian times and have continued to be an important product for subsistence and cash income. Little is known about current levels of exploitation and pressure on natural stocks, despite observations of declining populations of the larger and most valued species. This study investigates how people living in the Negro River ar…
Síntese analítica do mapeamento das condições ambientais da macrorregião de Paragominas (Paper 236)
Este trabalho aborda como o histórico de uso das paisagens produzidas pelo homem na Amazônia acarreta profundos efeitos na capacidade de recuperação deste ecossistema. O presente estudo foi realizado na macro-região de Paragominas, considerada como a mais degradada de toda a bacia amazônica (Capobianco et al. 2001).Palavras-chave: Ação antrópica. Bioma amazônico. Fragmentação da paisagem. Biodiversidade
No-Bodies
This article examines the legal production of racial difference as a relation of violence. It does so by engaging with the theoretical and political problematic of relationality, which has recently gained prominence in critical legal and political thought. The article argues that the relational approach to difference, while offering important insights into the workings of power, ultimately fails to account for the specificity of racial violence. …
À brasileira
Se o erotismo, como afirma Bataille, diferencia a sexualidade humana - conforme institui o sujeito moderno como efeito do desejo - está corretamente classificado entre as análises críticas das condições de produção dos sujeitos modernos. Por isso, neste artigo, revisito as articulações do erótico na versão de Freyre do sujeito nacional brasileiro. Mapeio como o erotismo produz uma figura racial, o mestiço, cuja particularidade reside em ser um ob…
Section III
In imperial fashion, the question of national security, national resources, and the preservation of civil liberties has come to be framed almost exclusively by the wars America is forced to conduct outside its borders; and in imperial fashion, these wars are increasingly portrayed as supranational police actions against rogue states, axes of evil, and whole criminal populations. This curious inversion between domestic security and international c…
Bahia Pêlo Negro
This article revisits the theme of representation by examining the relationship between difference and transparency. I argue that the current purchase of multiculturalism and diversity marks the ‘officialization’ of the 1980s politics of difference, which refashioned previous formulations of racial and cultural difference without challenging their ontological premises. Through a reading of the Bloco Olodum’s 1988s carnival lyrics, I chart the art…
An introduction
‘Truth’ and ideology (as error or falsity), like any other oppositional terms, take up the same productive powers and necessarily track each other very closely. Not much is necessary for any statement to move from the former into the latter field. My review of the main twentieth‐century lines of Brazilian racial studies, in this introduction, traces how they have moved miscegenation and racial democracy back and forth across the border between so…
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt:The Racial Logic of Global Capitalism-An Introduction Paula Chakravartty (bio) and Denise Ferreira da Silva (bio) I could feel the knife in my hand, still slippery with perspiration. A Slave was a slave. Anything could be done to her. And Rufus was Rufus-erratic, alternately generous and vicious. I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover . . . …
No-Bodies
This article examines the legal production of racial difference as a relation of violence. It does so by engaging with the theoretical and political problematic of relationality, which has recently gained prominence in critical legal and political thought. The article argues that the relational approach to difference, while offering important insights into the workings of power, ultimately fails to account for the specificity of racial violence. …
Facts of Blackness
Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress the puzzling co existence of racial inequality with Brazil s self image as a lracial democracy . Frequently, they identify the absence of racial conflict and a clear white black distinc tion as explanationsfor the low level of black political mobilisation. In doing this, these studies unreflectedly take the United Sates as a universal model of racial subordina tion of which Brazilian differ…
Hacking the Subject
Hacking the SubjectBlack Feminism and Refusal beyond the Limits of Critique Denise Ferreira da Silva What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow parameters of change are possible and allowable. Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of differenc…
Towards a Critique of the Socio-logos of Justice
Fear of police terror has long been a daily facet of the lives of economically dispossessed people of colour in the urban spaces of North America, Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere. This essay addresses the conditions of possibility of the form of race injustice manifested in racial profiling and police brutality. It challenges the centrality of the logic of exclusion - the view that race is only politically and socially significant when race …
À brasileira
Se o erotismo, como afirma Bataille, diferencia a sexualidade humana - conforme institui o sujeito moderno como efeito do desejo - está corretamente classificado entre as análises críticas das condições de produção dos sujeitos modernos. Por isso, neste artigo, revisito as articulações do erótico na versão de Freyre do sujeito nacional brasileiro. Mapeio como o erotismo produz uma figura racial, o mestiço, cuja particularidade reside em ser um ob…
Uses and Taboos of Turtles and Tortoises Along Rio Negro, Amazon Basin
Chelonians (turtles and tortoises) of the Amazon Basin have constituted a source of food for native populations since pre-Columbian times and have continued to be an important product for subsistence and cash income. Little is known about current levels of exploitation and pressure on natural stocks, despite observations of declining populations of the larger and most valued species. This study investigates how people living in the Negro River ar…
Bahia Pêlo Negro
This article revisits the theme of representation by examining the relationship between difference and transparency. I argue that the current purchase of multiculturalism and diversity marks the ‘officialization’ of the 1980s politics of difference, which refashioned previous formulations of racial and cultural difference without challenging their ontological premises. Through a reading of the Bloco Olodum’s 1988s carnival lyrics, I chart the art…
Globality
The Racial Limits of Social Justice
Denise Ferreira da Silva, The Racial Limits of Social Justice: The Ruse of Equality of Opportunity and the Global Affirmative Action Mandate, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2016), pp. 184-209
An introduction
‘Truth’ and ideology (as error or falsity), like any other oppositional terms, take up the same productive powers and necessarily track each other very closely. Not much is necessary for any statement to move from the former into the latter field. My review of the main twentieth‐century lines of Brazilian racial studies, in this introduction, traces how they have moved miscegenation and racial democracy back and forth across the border between so…
Extraordinary times
Em estado bruto
Nesse texto, publicado originalmente na revista e-flux [n° 93, setembro de 2018], Denise Ferreira da Silva delineia aquilo que define como uma interpretação poética, negra e feminista do trabalho de arte Majmua, de Madiha Sikander. Recusando a tradição moderna do discurso crítico, a autora busca, em vez do paradigma da abordagem analítica e a atitude de subsumir o trabalho de arte à categoria dos conceitos, a aproximação a uma matéria, por assim …
Facts of Blackness
Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress the puzzling co existence of racial inequality with Brazil s self image as a lracial democracy . Frequently, they identify the absence of racial conflict and a clear white black distinc tion as explanationsfor the low level of black political mobilisation. In doing this, these studies unreflectedly take the United Sates as a universal model of racial subordina tion of which Brazilian differ…
Towards a Critique of the Socio-logos of Justice
Fear of police terror has long been a daily facet of the lives of economically dispossessed people of colour in the urban spaces of North America, Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere. This essay addresses the conditions of possibility of the form of race injustice manifested in racial profiling and police brutality. It challenges the centrality of the logic of exclusion - the view that race is only politically and socially significant when race …
An introduction
‘Truth’ and ideology (as error or falsity), like any other oppositional terms, take up the same productive powers and necessarily track each other very closely. Not much is necessary for any statement to move from the former into the latter field. My review of the main twentieth‐century lines of Brazilian racial studies, in this introduction, traces how they have moved miscegenation and racial democracy back and forth across the border between so…
Section III
In imperial fashion, the question of national security, national resources, and the preservation of civil liberties has come to be framed almost exclusively by the wars America is forced to conduct outside its borders; and in imperial fashion, these wars are increasingly portrayed as supranational police actions against rogue states, axes of evil, and whole criminal populations. This curious inversion between domestic security and international c…
Bahia Pêlo Negro
This article revisits the theme of representation by examining the relationship between difference and transparency. I argue that the current purchase of multiculturalism and diversity marks the ‘officialization’ of the 1980s politics of difference, which refashioned previous formulations of racial and cultural difference without challenging their ontological premises. Through a reading of the Bloco Olodum’s 1988s carnival lyrics, I chart the art…
À brasileira
Se o erotismo, como afirma Bataille, diferencia a sexualidade humana - conforme institui o sujeito moderno como efeito do desejo - está corretamente classificado entre as análises críticas das condições de produção dos sujeitos modernos. Por isso, neste artigo, revisito as articulações do erótico na versão de Freyre do sujeito nacional brasileiro. Mapeio como o erotismo produz uma figura racial, o mestiço, cuja particularidade reside em ser um ob…
Síntese analítica do mapeamento das condições ambientais da macrorregião de Paragominas (Paper 236)
Este trabalho aborda como o histórico de uso das paisagens produzidas pelo homem na Amazônia acarreta profundos efeitos na capacidade de recuperação deste ecossistema. O presente estudo foi realizado na macro-região de Paragominas, considerada como a mais degradada de toda a bacia amazônica (Capobianco et al. 2001).Palavras-chave: Ação antrópica. Bioma amazônico. Fragmentação da paisagem. Biodiversidade
No-Bodies
This article examines the legal production of racial difference as a relation of violence. It does so by engaging with the theoretical and political problematic of relationality, which has recently gained prominence in critical legal and political thought. The article argues that the relational approach to difference, while offering important insights into the workings of power, ultimately fails to account for the specificity of racial violence. …
Toward a Global Idea of Race
In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Look…
Uses and Taboos of Turtles and Tortoises Along Rio Negro, Amazon Basin
Chelonians (turtles and tortoises) of the Amazon Basin have constituted a source of food for native populations since pre-Columbian times and have continued to be an important product for subsistence and cash income. Little is known about current levels of exploitation and pressure on natural stocks, despite observations of declining populations of the larger and most valued species. This study investigates how people living in the Negro River ar…
Roundtable on Eve Darian-Smith, Religion, Race, Rights
Mapeamento participativo do uso dos recursos naturais e conhecimento tradicional sobre ecologia de Quelônios na Várzea do Rio Purus, Brasil (Paper 294)
Na Amazônia, a captura de quelônios pelos indígenas é muito anterior à conquista européia. O estudo do saber popular que é usado na produção em pequena escala pode contribuir para, compreender como os recursos naturais no caso, os quelônios são explorados. O presente estudo foi realizado em três comunidades (São Sebastião, Fazenda e Beabá) da Reserva Biológica do Abufari (RBA), localizada no município de Tapauá, Amazonas, Brasil. Esta reserva per…
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt:The Racial Logic of Global Capitalism-An Introduction Paula Chakravartty (bio) and Denise Ferreira da Silva (bio) I could feel the knife in my hand, still slippery with perspiration. A Slave was a slave. Anything could be done to her. And Rufus was Rufus-erratic, alternately generous and vicious. I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover . . . …
Extraordinary times
Before Man
Globality
The Racial Limits of Social Justice
Denise Ferreira da Silva, The Racial Limits of Social Justice: The Ruse of Equality of Opportunity and the Global Affirmative Action Mandate, Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2016), pp. 184-209
Hacking the Subject
Hacking the SubjectBlack Feminism and Refusal beyond the Limits of Critique Denise Ferreira da Silva What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow parameters of change are possible and allowable. Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of differenc…
Em estado bruto
Nesse texto, publicado originalmente na revista e-flux [n° 93, setembro de 2018], Denise Ferreira da Silva delineia aquilo que define como uma interpretação poética, negra e feminista do trabalho de arte Majmua, de Madiha Sikander. Recusando a tradição moderna do discurso crítico, a autora busca, em vez do paradigma da abordagem analítica e a atitude de subsumir o trabalho de arte à categoria dos conceitos, a aproximação a uma matéria, por assim …
Reading the Dead
Pensamento fractal [trad. de Mariana Dos Santos Faciulli e Nicolau Gayão]
Tradução de Fractal Thinking, de Denise Ferreira da Silva
After it's all said
Another Image of Existence
Since 2015/2016, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Valentina Desideri have been engaging in a joint practice of so-called Poethical Readings, a device that engages the poetic and the ethical at the limits of the epistemology and ontology of the modern Subject. In this interview, Ferreira da Silva and Desideri provide insight into the singular and theatrical dynamics of Poetical Readings, as well as The Sensing Salon, a format for the collective exerci…
A Q&A with Denise Ferreira da Silva
The following exchange took place during the Question and Answer period following Denise Ferreira da Silva's (DFdS) talk, "Negative Accumulation, or That Which Happens without Time." The talk was given digitally on 25 January 2022 as part of Relative Time/Little Time , a speaker series designed collaboratively by Dutch artist duo Bik Van der Pol and Mosaic . The Question and Answer session was moderated by Mosaic Editor Shepherd Steiner (SS
Response
Unpayable Debt seeks to intervene in the collaborative task of assembling of a whole other analytical apparatus and political program. As a composition, it works in that moment. It does some of the groundwork necessary for designing the kind of shift in thinking needed for addressing what this global moment demands from us. In this response to the comments from readers who share in the same project, I highlight how, because the centrality of thin…
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