Receipt of works in the form of papers, essays, literary texts and images that reflect on the theme, until October 20, 2021.

Let us assume that no social order emerges from absolute nothingness, in a space previously supposedly characterized by anomie. This assumption implies that the idea of "constituent power" should be understood as a movement that is not only productive but also one of rupture, which entails the rejection of a previous authoritative rule as a condition for the emergence of a new way of being in society. In this sense, we can presume that all constituting power includes, at the same time, deconstituting and reconstituting dimensions, and is linked to a (des)instituting thought capable of transcending traditions already established (and sclerotic) in institutions improperly seen not only as natural, but also as eternal, like political representation, property, the self, the liberal economy, and so many others.

Nevertheless, constitutional studies have increasingly treated this topic as a mere issue of beginning of the legal order that, from an institutional perspective, is encompassed by the constituted power once the so-called “democratic” procedural structures of the Rule of Law are consolidated. With the alleged intention of guaranteeing the permanence of this order, the deconstituting dimension of the constituent power has been gradually silenced within constitutional theory and political theory.

Once such a paradigm was established, characterized by the shift of constituent power from the streets to the arena of roundtables, it is not uncommon that social movements that value polyphony and horizontality, that reject political representation apparatuses, that bet on the precarious organizational potency of experience and of the event, in short, that claim to be ungovernable, are no longer perceived as true constituent powers. The next step in this process, as we are witnessing today, probably involves the criminalization and persecution of these movements.

In contrast to this tendency in constitutional theory and political theory, a new approach then began to take shape in the political field, dedicated to thinking these movements considering the notion of “destituent”, as a way to rescue the importance and highlight the potency of the very vilified deconstituting dimension of the constituent power.

Along these lines, (des)troços launches this invitation to another event to toss troços in the form of papers, essays, literary texts, and images (painting, drawing, photography, etc.), that reflect on the theme constituent and destituent: powers, potencies and (des)instituting thought and its variations, considering its history, tensions, disputes, experiences, practices, criticisms, challenges, etc.

We also emphasize that, in addition to this thematic dossier, the journal (des)troços receives continuous-flow submissions of a general nature that are linked to radical thought and to the editorial line of the journal, as described at:
https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/about

Submissions shall be sent through the OJS system, respecting the submission rules in the case of texts (https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/about/submissions) until October 20, 2021.

The requirements concerning academic titles do not apply to image authors, whose submissions shall be evaluated only by the Editorial Committee. Submissions in the form of text will be evaluated by the Editorial Committee and will be submitted to the double-blind review system. Once approved, texts and images will be published in the third issue of the journal, scheduled to be released in December 2021.