XADREZ AUTU ÔNOMA (XAÔ)* Escrevivência, Critical Jurilinguistics and the Geopolitics of Accents

This article presents Xadrez AUTU ÔNOMA (XAÔ): an authorial pedagogical technology of a decolonial matrix that articulates law, linguistics, literature (oralitura and Escrevivência [living-writing from Black embodied experience]), critical pedagogy, and decolonial theory. The article proposes, as its theoretical framework, the field of Nomoglossia — the study of normative systems (law, institutions, art, technology) as linguistic practices that produce material effects on situated bodies. When applied specifically to law, Nomoglossia appears as Critical Jurilinguistics; when applied to the General Theory of the State and its institutional mechanisms, it appears as Critical State-Linguistic Theory.

The central thesis is that law functions as a linguistic practice that produces material effects on situated bodies — and that its primary political problem lies in the systematic refusal to acknowledge this nature, presenting itself as a neutral system of norms while erasing the conditions of its own production. The project's performative method bears the name Svayam (स्वयम् — Sanskrit: “by oneself”): the act of learning to act by one's own agency, to name from one's own situated position, and to become sovereign over the rules that previously governed without being perceived.

The concrete device that enacts the Svayam is the XAÔ: a 5-day historical crescendum, conducted as an exploratory phenomenological pilot study with 8 participants from Coletivo É Nóix — not statistically generalizable, but validated by thematic saturation of the escrevivências. The crescendum culminates in a physical 64-square board where the participants themselves become the pieces. The project emerges from the tension between Pedro Parini (2014, p. 67), who reveals the symbolic problem of law, and Flavianne Nóbrega (2013), who reveals the material problem — the institutional mechanisms of the State that transform bodies into institutional functions.

The game constructed by the participants received the name Xadrez de Quebrada — asserting that the territory from which one speaks is also the position from which the rules are rewritten. AUTU ÔNOMA — from the act of “autuar” (to formally indict) and the Greek ônoma (name) — designates the central gesture of the workshop: to formally indict one's own process of nomination. Phonetically, it resonates with autônoma (feminine): autonomy here is not neutral — it has body, voice, and position. This is Version 21 of the manuscript, incorporating: a new comparative section on Nomoglossia and 12 neighboring fields (2.6); an eight-face prism (2.10); terminological sovereignty through Sanskrit (Pānini) (2.9); the shogi drops rule as Board-Level Restorative Justice; theocratic XAÔ; a simulated legislative bill; and an objections-and-responses section.

Keywords: Xadrez AUTU ÔNOMA (XAÔ). Xadrez de Quebrada. Nomoglossia. Critical Jurilinguistics. Critical State-Linguistic Theory. Svayam. Escrevivência. Oralitura. Engaged Pedagogy. bell hooks. Parini. Nóbrega. Saussure. Pānini. Evaristo. Fanon. Freire. Lyra Filho. Sousa Junior. Gender and Sovereignty. Performative Pedagogy. Decoloniality. Drops / Shogi / Restorative Justice. Movimento XAÔ. Phenomenological Pilot Study