Peripheral perspectivism and reverse urban philosophy: An essay toward a cannibal cartography

This essay explores the intersection of philosophy, anthropology, festivities, and youth occupations in peripheral urban areas to conceptualize peripheral perspectivism, reverse urban philosophy, and cannibal cartography. We examine how rolê—understood as the practice of wandering—and other manifestations of peripheral youth culture relate to Michel Foucault’s notion of transhistorical cynicism and Brazilian modernist artists’ anthropophagic framework. This investigation introduces the concept of cannibal cartography as a dynamic process that incorporates, devours, and transforms the objects of study and knowledge subjects. By fostering epistemological drifts and deviations, this approach enables the emergence of alternative perspectives within philosophical discourse. These perspectives act as epistemopolitical insurgencies against epistemicides targeting marginalized cultures, particularly those of peripheral youth. These reflections aim to contribute to the construction of an open, processual, and evolving cartography that informs conceptual production and philosophy teaching based on a decolonial and transdisciplinary perspective.

Keywords
periphery; anthropophagy; epistemicide; cynicism