Bernard Charlot. In memoria

Abstract

A few days before the release of this Dossier, on December 3, 2025, we received the news ofthe passing of Bernard Charlot (1944–2025). Until his final hours, he remained deeply engaged, driven by avital impulse to create spaces that were always collective and horizontal, dedicated to thought, reflection, andproduction. With his body and his concepts, he sustained, honoring the school that shaped him (Badiou,2005), that adventure of being human and holding ourselves as such, his struggle through education againstbarbarism (in its various ever-renewed forms).He was the youngest among us. He remained restless, writing a book, his last book, on the Theory of theRelationship with Knowledge, which now remains unfinished. He had been reading Heidegger, revisiting him to further strengthen the foundations of his notion of the subject, so central to his work.Between November 10 and 14, we gathered together with other colleagues from Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina,Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and Greece at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Caruaru, Pernambuco,Brazil) for the first meeting of the Network of Researchers of the Relationship with Knowledge (RIRSA).There, Bernard worked tirelessly. He coordinated, translated the ongoing dialogues into three languages(Portuguese, Spanish, French), debated, argued, questioned... We had been organizing that RIRSA meetingfor a year. It became his farewell and yet another gesture of his legacy.In that context of collaboration, this Dossier emerged, which we conceived, designed, and cared for together.What follows is a brief text in his memory. This text is based on one written in 2022, which is part of acollective volume titled A obra de Bernard Charlot: Por seus intérpretes (CRV Publishing House, Curitiba,Brazil), organized by D. Cavalvanti and C. Rego.