New publication in the Freigeist Fellowship: Marlon Miguel releases Falatório / Chatter
Marlon Miguel, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Freigeist project “Madness, Media, Milieus” sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation at the Faculty of Media at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, has published his monograph Falatório / Chatter. The book was developed within the framework of the research project “Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe.”
The publication focuses on the Brazilian poet Stella do Patrocínio (1941–1992), who lived in the Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric institution in Rio de Janeiro from the age of 21 until her death. The form of relentless speech she developed during this time—long dismissed by psychiatry as “logorrhoea”—is recontextualized in Miguel’s study.
Based on extensive archival research, the book demonstrates that Do Patrocínio’s falatório can be understood as a distinct poetic and resistant mode of expression. It opens up new perspectives on questions of voice, subjectivity, and power in relation to psychiatry, racism, and patriarchal structures.
The publication brings together transcriptions of Do Patrocínio’s texts in Portuguese and English, making them accessible in this form for the first time. In doing so, it contributes to the reassessment of marginalized voices in the humanities and media studies.
For more information about the book, click here: Falatório/Chatter · ICI Berlin Press
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