ABSTRACT
Is there a movement from part to part, which leads from one part to another one through eventual interstices or gaps? Such transit has been understood largely under the scheme of the relation, and, even more, under this scheme part and counterpart have become terms or moments of the tie that encompasses them. What this chapter investigates is the possibility to conceive the parts as departing points of movement, therefore taking it apart from a relational matrix. By this certainly it is not a matter to return to the complacency of self-sufficient units, but on the contrary to release the intrinsic anxiety of the parts. This disquietness, as suggested by the beautiful title of Hans Blumenberg, Die Sorge geht über den Fluss, provides the impulse that allows to cross the river that separates the parts. Motifs of this chapter on the movement of parts are the ceaseless expeditions of the Waiwai Amerindians in search of the so-called enîhni komo, the unseen, wherein the paradoxical aim turns the travels into never ending detours; the radicalization of parts in the initial encounter of a shaman with the protective spirits called xapiri as told by Kopenawa in The Falling Sky: words of a yanomami shaman. Following the trail of these potential detachments from the relational paradigm, it is the matter to see to what extent an approach focusing on the interweaving of movements is able to reformulate or to exceed this model, and to what extent a translation, but this time a translation in discontinuous mode, leads to rethink what parts can perform.
