Mayan Priest Sees Conquistadors in Future - Mural in Municipal Council Building, Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. Wikicommons. Some rights reserved.Krystian Woznicki (KW): Movement, embodied or disembodied, unfolds in space and time towards something more or less uncertain and therefore is directed towards the future. What types of movement relate to a general sense of crisis of the imagination and future production?
Marcia Cavalcante (MC): This question presupposes a definition of movement that should be questioned. Movement is not only or mainly related to the future or to the production of the future. Movement can be also be related to the past and to the production of the past, to the present and to the production of the present. Indeed, the idea of movement that seems to have prompted this question is one that understands movement only from a demand for production, from a certain demand for development that directs production in a certain direction and moves movement toward a certain goal. But movement moves both forward or backward, such as in whirling, turmoil, or a spasm.
And there is also the point of intensification of the goal-oriented movement in which the movement moves everything except the movement itself. This movement that moves everything but does not move movement is the movement proper to the status quo, to a state of no way out, to a stasis, a word that in ancient Greek means both status quo and civil war. Aristotle coined the term “unmoved mover” to describe the principle that governs the universe. Karl Marx recognized the “unmoved mover” as the principle of capitalism. The type of movement that is related to what you are calling “crisis of imagination” or “crisis of future production” – seeming to imply lack of vision of an “open” future – this is the movement that keeps everything in movement only in order to keep this movement unmoved, that is, unchanged.
