Affective constellations: The everyday, human activities, social relations and occupational therapy interwoven with Krenak’s cosmovision

Abstract

In the context of a pandemic, occupational therapists reflect on human activities, the everyday, and social relations, in a contra-hegemonic construction that intersects with Ailton Krenak’s cosmovision. Problematizing perspectives that dissociate beings/nature/culture/life and disregard the impacts of modes of living, this study draws on this perspective to potentiate experiences and renew the ethical-political-cultural commitment to the collective. We identified propositive affinities: people-collectives; the resignification of humanity and life in its interdependence in constellations of beings; the receptiveness of encounters intensifying affective alliances; the presence in experience because all that exists is now; the urgent shift in modern modes of living and poetry of resistance, with the reinvention and creation of possible worlds mobilized by singing, dancing, suspending the sky, and building colorful parachutes.