To think about the interworld communication: cosmopolitical forums and interepistemic dialogues

Abstract

The paper presents a diagnosis and a theoretical-methodological platform. The diagnosis seeks to account for the distant relationship between research in communication and the know-how of traditional populations in Brazil, underlining the mutually exclusive relations between Tradition and Modernity, which constitute the field of Communication Studies. It follows an effort to articulate two philosophical matrices, decoloniality and cosmopolitics, from which emerge two combined propositions to think about communication between worlds: 1) cosmopolitical forum that seeks to face the Nature X Culture dichotomy with an ethnographic approach to other forms of life and their pragmatics; 2) inter-epistemic dialogues, which, through a long-lasting historical path, recognizes the cultural differences and the remaining forms of colonialism from an epistemological point of view, facing the Subject X Object dichotomy through interculturality as dialogue.