DOSSIER: RESISTANCE STUDIES IN THE FRONT OF CATASTROPHE AND THE STATE OF EXCEPTION

The production of a dossier entitled Studies resistance in the face catastrophe and state exception arises from need to strengthen research on forms different lines action that assert themselves field literary studies. In this sense, we seek bring together texts by researchers who collaborate with qualification development scientific intellectual dissemination dialogical processes between areas History, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Cinema, Visual Arts Literature. This is affirmed due significant reflections ways contrary totalitarianism, authoritarianism other oppression. categories Resistance Testimony are present studies such as those Alfredo Bosi, Augusto Sarmento-Pantoja, Bárbara Harlow, Giorgio Agamben, Jaime Ginzburg, Márcio Seligmann-Silva, Michel Foucault, Paul Ricœur, Tânia Sigmund Freud, Stuart Hall, Theodor Adorno, Tzvetan Todorov, Walter Benjamin, among others, have shown broad theoretical-critical insertion investigations related Cultural Studies, Sociological Criticism, Historical Materialism Discourse Analysis. mobility through theoretical-methodological approaches consequence principles reasons govern categories: oppose forces try at all costs most varied domesticate, subdue, submit, massacre, destroy. struggles for freedom, fundamental human civil rights, justice dignity imperatives make up speculative core Resistance, category offers many possibilities reflection States Exception, case Dictatorships. Dossier discusses topic hand is, finally, an effort consolidate, disseminate interconnect knowledge regard guided social commitment. strengthened even more when find that, time, extremist groups occupy streets our country defense values practices civil-military dictatorship, idealizing them simultaneously obstruct critical pertinent period also silence its reverberations cultural, educational, political spheres. Thinking about alternatives actions strategies oppression, like exception, becomes indispensable act contemporary thought.KEYWORDS: Resistance. A testimony. Catastrophe. State Exception.