Disinstituting the act and freeing the power of reading and writing

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to analyze some theoretical fragments of Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault on the activation of the potency of reading and writing within/against the university. From a lecture by Paulo Freire, there was a change of meaning in relation to the act of reading and writing when united with the interpretative key of potency, in the aristotelian sense, revisited by Giorgio Agamben. The study, thus, envisions passages from the structural reading of Victor Goldschmidt as an example of language sovereignty linked to authorship, intellectual property, disempowerment and the work. Likewise, the text suggests forms of disinstitution of this sovereignty through experiences of thought and the activation of potency in readings and writings, outside and inside the university. Therefore, it is noted that the activation of potency, in contrast to the unidimensionality of the act, in the actions of reading and writing, is in the recognition of power-o-no, in the un/work and in the “death” of the author.

Key words: Reading. Writing. Potency. Disinstitution. Un/work.