Uma odisséia paulistana: uma documentação retroativa sobre o São Vito

Abstract

This paper discusses possibilities of reading a contemporary metropolis, represented here by the city of São Paulo. To do this, an icon in the city was chosen to simulate those possible readings. This object is the São Vito building, or "treme-treme", a sample of the chaotic organization and development who insists to remain rooted in the paulistanian territory. And to accomplish this task of reading, I adopted and absorbed a fundamental concept in contemporary philosophy: the rhizome. With this concept in mind, the subjects were formatted in the form of letters of the alphabet, creating a dictionary, or rather, a rhizomatous abecedarian. During its development, this work has turned into a documentation. A documentation of processes, pathways, the usually marginalized elements of academic studies over the city, about really experiencing the city. Take the city for yourself, viscerally. In the end, this work clarifies a further possibility of reading and ownership of this complex and instigating entity that is São Paulo, without, of course, ignore or discredit those traditional ways to realize such readings. It just tried to think about how to read the city. A reading more open, derivative and rhizomatous.