Just so you can’t say I didn’t mention the clouds 121 politics, where the caboclo, previously subjugated by colonial practices, now rebels, utilizing both the oppressor’s tools and his own in a reversal of power. He asserts his space, launching his arrow into the air, not to kill, but to introduce a new sense of life into an alternative socio-technical imaginary. In the words of Luiz Antonio Simas and Luiz Rufino in Flecha no Tempo (Arrow in Time) (2019, p. 11): Warriors and walkers from one end of this place to the other, we feed even on people to magnetize vital force. The foundation of the battlefield is to potentiate the sense of life; never to exterminate it. Thus, the game is inscribed as a sociability ex- perience that does not premise exclusion but the incorporation of vibrations that wander and settle in things, setting the tone of what the world is. The destiny of every warrior is to inhabit the presence of the opponent or incorporate them into oneself, thus forming another being that will enthrone the battles, virtues, and vibrations of both. […] Per- haps that is why the caboclo embodied the Word into his arrow, which will always find its target. Caboclo shouts, turns into a beast, unties the knot of time, and writes part of his knowledge in the fog of smoke. (Author’s translation) 8. Toward a Communicational Philosophy of Care My observations come from someone from Generation X, a generation that largely created the Internet as we know it today. It was us, in our start-ups at the turn of the millennium, who laid the foundations of the current Internet. Despite our good intentions, we created a monster. However, for Generation Z, the first generation born with the Internet as their “natural” environment, the challenge is to envision an Internet that does not burden the self, society, or the planet. I hope that from this generation, socio-technical imaginaries will emerge that are un- linked from the “superhighway” of speed or the simulation of the metaverse.
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