11 A seminar of farewells and memories Jairo Ferreira Among themany functions of a book, one is to be amem- ory. This one, in particular, is also a memory of the last conference and debate by Ciro Marcondes Filho. A week after the event, he passed away. He went towards the cosmos. During the seminar, we were impacted; everyone, including those who knew him and those who had just met Ciro. The book is a variation on all of that. The recordings onMidiaticom’s YouTube channel are more “alive” (https://www.youtube.com/@midiaticom3944). Table I, with Ciro Marcondes and Braga, and Table 2, with the tribute to Ciro, are the records of that life that passed away, which allowed us the life that remained in the farewell. Ciro, a colleague and delicate friend from whom we learned a lot, in his specific ways of sensitivity and questioning, presented us in his farewell. It is not little. Several times, after all, we reflected on this. How to understand our presence and farewell, including icons of the communication research field in Brazil, like Ciro? Where are they kept, besides the books not always remembered? Without firm answers about this, in the field whose theories are more fleeting, we highlight what is also like this: Ciro is a researcher who speaks to us in the same way he also speaks about himself. There are few who manage to do this as intensely as Ciro Marcondes. And when they do that, they teach a lo W t. e are privileged to have this. Communication, rare, when thought about, says a lot about the way we are – as at- tempts, potentialities, and limitations. The table at which Ciro and Braga spoke is also the result of many years of debates, initiated by theWG on Epistemolo- gy of Communication and the Journal Questões Transversais, on a question that instigates both of them: what is communication?
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