"Our words are not concepts": Towards an ecology of ways of thinking
Starting from a specific historical experience—the irruption, in Brazilian universities, of affirmative action policies involving quotas for minorities, encounters of knowledge and, more recently, the so-called epistemic quotas—this presentation (part of an ongoing collaborative work with Vladimir Moreira Lima, from the State University of Rio de Janeiro) critically analyzes the postulate that different ways of thinking are essentially equivalent. From there, it proposes an ecological perspective that takes into account the different means of thought in which such modes operate, thus seeking to highlight their essential non-equivalence, conceived as multiplicity and as a condition for creative agencies.