Literature and Disagreement

reflections on the resistance of the literature against The Common National Curricular Base from the thoughts of Benjamin and Rancière

Abstract

This paper analyzes how the Common National Curricular Base (BNCC) binds directly to the logic of the consumer society, authenticating, therefore, the world as it is and the contemporary pseudo-political practices. Faced with this scenario, a conflic emerges between literature and BNCC. This article intends to show this dispute, highlighting the political potential of the literary, from its aesthetic performance. For this purpose, one part of the text is dedicated to presenting the general premises of the document; posteriorly, is shown how the literature is presented in the Base and the dissensus created from a lack of space for the literary because of the excess present in the document. In view of that, The Politics of Literature and Disagreement can tensioning school space as an area of resistance to the absolute, realizing a (re)partition of the sensible. The reflections are based, mainly, on the thoughts of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Rancière.