Reading the Dead as a procedure frames the anti-colonial project as a confrontation with Global Capital, and its ethical imperative as the return of the total value yield by the productive capacity of native lands and slave bodies. Ferreria da Silva’s source of inspiration are the Zapatistas as well as other contemporary indigenous and rural (peasant, fishermen/women movements) protests, in Latin America and elsewhere, to the return to economic development projects based on mega-agricultural projects and natural resource exploitation.

When designing and deploying this imaging strategy Ferreria da Silva targets the ontoepistemological devices, which in-form existing political discourses. More specifically, this experiment seeks to expose and dissolve some of the critical concepts, categories, and formulations – which immediately nullify past, present, and future juridical gains resulting from these recent waves of protest – precisely because the prevailing left discourse lacks the capacity to comprehend the Dead as a political subject.