Onde Andarão as Bichas Loucas?

The intensity with which affects cross boundaries of individual, social, cultural, political and economic life is a defining characteristic of neoliberalism. Many studies have focused on the exhaustion of contemporary affective life and interpreting a fundamental cruelty at the heart of demands for optimism or happiness. However, what possibilities arise for the political imagination about neoliberalism and curriculum when taken from the figure of the crazy fogs? In this article, I seek to assemble the figuration of the bicha poetics , articulating videos that have gone viral on social networks with personal and research archives in order to trace a more nuanced account of the struggle for life in lands devastated by neoliberal entrepreneurship. From the context of gay lives in Brazilian cities on the periphery of capitalism, marked by a wave of desire to appear and body expressiveness, I argue that pleasure and joy not only succumb to despair. I explore transtemporal resonances in curricula, arguing how the (re)appearance of the bichas loucas poses a challenge to conceptualize performance and performativity in curriculum politics, collapsing temporal scalability and expanding ontology beyond the space of the Euro-American experience.