The machine of the world and the jus publicum europæum: Ricardo Aleixo, Nuno Ramos and another Anthropocene

ABSTRACT

The work is based on the poem “Máquina zero” (2004), the present book of the same name by Ricardo Aleixo; and the mention made by Nuno Ramos in Junco (2011) to the poem “Máquina do mundo”, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, present in Claro enigma (1951), to analyze the relationship with the topic of the “machine of the world”. After briefly recovering this theme in tradition, we will re-examine the articulation between metaphysics and geopolitics within it, especially the constitution of a European public law, according to Carl Schmitt's terms, to later outline some possibilities included in their requests by contemporary poets. Our conclusion is that Ricardo Aleixo and Nuno Ramos elaborate, each in their own way - but both with strong Drummondian inspiration -, a symmetrical intersection between nature and culture, that is, another Anthropocene.

KEYWORDS:
World’s machine; jus publicum europaeum; Antropoceno; Nuno Ramos, Carlos Drummond de Andrade