Abstract

SCHULER, Betina. Degradation of thought, language and socio-environmental issues: resisting through reading and writing in schools. Prax. Saber [online]. 2025, vol.16, n.45, 10.  Epub Jan 17, 2026. ISSN 2216-0159.  https://doi.org/10.19053/uptc.22160159.v16.n45.2025.18603.

This article discusses the thinking of Félix Guattari (2012), based on the concept of ecosophy, the thinking of Ricardo Timm de Souza (2020), supported by his critique of idolatrous reason, and the concept of ecological thinking of Timothy Morton (2023), in order to consider the power of reading and writing in schools as a necessary political confrontation of our time. Focusing on human formation in schools based on social and environmental ecology, and with attention to the singularities of each life in an interconnected way, allows us to problematize forces marked by a neoliberal rationality and that operate in the present producing degradations of various levels. Therefore, we question the idolatrous reason that transforms everything into a commodity, in a relationship of immanence with the hardening of language, and that leaves no more space for thought because it transforms everything into information (and misinformation). Hence the defense of reading and writing in school as a possibility of ecological thinking in the creation of narratives for other ethical-aesthetic policies with the destiny of humanity, even if in gaps.

Keywords : degradation of life; thought; language; reading and writing; school; neoliberalism.

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