Ó, Jorge Ramos do2024-04-072024-04-072019Ó, Jorge Ramos do (2019). Plural Word and Inventive Writing: The Legacy of Postmodern Social Theory. In Sanches, Tatiana, Antunes, Maria da Luz & Lopes, Carlos (Eds.), Improving the Academic Writing Experience in Higher Education (ISBN: 978-1-53615-671-3). Nova Science Publishers.978-1-53615-671-3http://hdl.handle.net/10451/64001The problem of writing is how to produce utterances that abandon the principles at all times expressed by the law - and by the institutions that introduce it into the social body through all sorts of routines of disciplinary and unitary representation of cultural inheritance, making use of knowledge as a body of prescriptions and a circle in which truths unfold - by drawing language out of its usual furrows and making it communicate with what will be its own exterior. The chapter addresses the great problem of university research, which we try to transpose into the reality of the text, which is and will always be to force the present to leave the existing signification processes and their prohibited correlates and to become available to all kinds of encounters with the unknown. As if writing couldtake on not only a skeptical dimension but more rigorously an agonistic force - in which what is assumed to be universal, necessary and obligatory is perceived as singular, contingent, and arbitrary - and whose ultimate effect is that of unleashing ourselves from the predictability and disciplinary homogeneity with which contemporary identities and ways of life present themselves, even if they are set to circulate with the labeling of subjectivity and the widest individual diversity. As if it compelled us to enter into the unknown and thus pressed us to establish new covenants between the subject of enunciation and the subject of conduct. It is from here that the hypothesis of an inventive, experimental writing derives.engWritingUniversity researchLanguage philosophyPostmodern social theorybook part