Apresentação: Pesquisar é estranhar a realidade

Knowledge production is not a straight line that heads towards an undoubted progress. Rather, such production suffers continuous interferences from the interlacing of knowledge, practices, ways of thinking. In fact those questions caused interferences to the very notion of scientific research, since reality, seen as a puzzle to be solved – a code to be unveiled by means of theoretical-methodological tool increasingly precise – was considered to possess an immutable essence that served as a model from which to organize all the possible variations. Understanding that founding nucleus, that truth, point of genesis of the cosmos, of the great narratives of everything that is different from them, has become a project, surely ambitious, of modern science in its deployments in different knowledge areas. However, would it be possible to turn the methodical Cartesian doubt a tool for questioning the truths that modernity chose for itself: truths installed into great narratives to define positions of gender, of universe, education, behavior, future, order, happiness, of humanity? Would it be possible to estrange inclusively the very notion of “essence”, “truth” and “reality”? Would it be possible to use again the tool of doubt to produce estranging on what is already given as undoubted and put into a problematizer movement that which already assumed as unquestionable? From those restlessness, the papers gathered into that dossier have as goal – each one in its field of problematization – to bring a thought that estranges, putting movement into perspectives considered stable in their naturalization, dribbling the “truth” and welcoming the interferences produced (both in the reality, and in the researcher himself) by the process of knowing.