Dreams, temporalities and university: experiences for the future

Abstract

This essay problematizes the reflections on the future in the contemporary world that approaches it unilaterally from its “reduction”, “stagnation” and “threat”. We argue that the perspectives of the future, reduced to its “impossibility” has ontological, epistemological, ethical-political and affective consequences that are dangerous for the intellectual and everyday environment, as it feeds the feeling that there is no way to overcome the challenges of the contemporary world, thus denying the mobilizing character of historical experience. This argument is conducted in the essay through the report of a classroom experience linked to the teaching of Theory of History. The experience made use of the students' dreams as a possible way to restore/rebuild our relationship with reality and with the future at the university. We also argue, based on the reported experience, that the exercise of recording, theoretical approach and sharing of dreams in community allows a broader perception of the challenges of contemporary temporality, as well as the construction of other possible worlds.

Keywords

• sonhos
• temporalidade
• teoria da história
• futuro
• universidade