O corpo-lixo: do dejeto à potência nas produções culturais contemporâneas

Abstract

Taking for granted the cultural-historical conception of the body in which it is understood that it is the effect of games of powers and knowledge historically situated, as well the subjectiveness processes adjacent to such embodiment, we were troubled by the question of how the body is explored and exhausted to the point of becoming a waste product. We take for Trash-Body the concept from where we departed for the investigative journey and it was the fuel of this research. Grounded in the premises of cartographic research, we try to follow the process of \"wastefication\" of the body, dipping and being affected by contemporary cultural productions, as depicted in media events (whether of journalistic nature, advertising or upside entertainment) and the arts (among them the cinema, literature and the theater). We adopted schizoanalysis as the main theoretical framework and for that reason we are able to lay down the eyes in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and furthermore compose and decompose with theoretical constructs of various areas such as psychology, history, sociology and philosophy itself, also taking Michel Foucault as an important travel companion. Recognizing the body as a changeable historical process and not merely an immutable biological entity, we conducted a historical overview of how the exercises of power affect the bodies over time, aiming to demonstrate the route by which it reached the current ways of experiencing the body that can lead to its wastefication . The most relevant aspect of this cartographic work was the search for inventive possibilities from the alleged abject condition, showing the power and compositions of forces that lead the trash-body to the potent-body condition.