Corpos em transmutação: narrativas alquímicas, extreme body modification e modos de subjetivação
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2021-12-03
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Rezende, Gabriel Catto
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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A alteração do corpo é um fenômeno amplamente presente ao longo da história humana. Contudo, percebe-se como a corporalidade é fruto de múltiplos discursos e regimes de verdades oriundos de contextos específicos que, especialmente na modernidade, engessam os contornos corporais a partir de um ideal normativo de “humanidade”, pautado por dinâmicas de poder e por lógicas cisheteronormativas e coloniais. As body modifications, por sua vez, podem se estabelecer como vias alternativas ou subversões dos princípios hegemônicos de corpo, onde a radicalização de suas práticas ocupa um espaço privilegiado de possível resistência aos dispositivos de poder, ensejando processos de subjetivação singulares. Assim, busquei investigar e compreender neste trabalho, a partir da construção de um percurso narrativo, as possibilidades, limites e modos de subjetivação envolvidos na feitoria de corpos extremamente alterados por técnicas de modificação corporal, bem como seus efeitos no que tange às experiências dos marcadores sociais de gênero/sexualidade e raça/etnia. Fazendo uso do método de narrativas de histórias de vida como instrumento-processo de pesquisa, foram entrevistadas pessoas que, por meio dessas práticas, experimentam com as formas, funções e sentidos dos seus corpos. Tais pessoas compartilharam suas histórias, explicitando como as extreme body modifications permitiram vivências e relações mais fluidas com suas identidades e corporalidades, favorecendo outras sensibilidades e modos de habitar o mundo.
The alteration of the body is a phenomenon widely present throughout human history. However, it is noticeable how corporeality is the result of multiple discourses and regimes of truths arising from specific contexts that, especially in modernity, plaster the body contours from a normative ideal of “humanity”, guided by power dynamics and by cisheteronormative and colonial logics. The body modifications, in turn, can establish themselves as alternative ways or subversions of the hegemonic principles of the body, where the radicalization of their practices occupies a privileged space of possible resistance to power devices, giving rise to singular subjectivation processes. Thus, I sought to investigate and understand in this work, based on the construction of a narrative route, the possibilities, limits and modes of subjectivation involved in the criation of bodies extremely altered by body modification techniques, as well as their effects regarding the experiences of social markers of gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity. Using the method of life narratives as a research tool/process were interviewed people who experiment with the forms, functions and meanings of their bodies through these practices. These people shared their stories, explaining how the extreme body modifications allowed more fluid experiences and relationships with their identities and corporeities, favoring other sensibilities and ways of inhabiting the world.
The alteration of the body is a phenomenon widely present throughout human history. However, it is noticeable how corporeality is the result of multiple discourses and regimes of truths arising from specific contexts that, especially in modernity, plaster the body contours from a normative ideal of “humanity”, guided by power dynamics and by cisheteronormative and colonial logics. The body modifications, in turn, can establish themselves as alternative ways or subversions of the hegemonic principles of the body, where the radicalization of their practices occupies a privileged space of possible resistance to power devices, giving rise to singular subjectivation processes. Thus, I sought to investigate and understand in this work, based on the construction of a narrative route, the possibilities, limits and modes of subjectivation involved in the criation of bodies extremely altered by body modification techniques, as well as their effects regarding the experiences of social markers of gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity. Using the method of life narratives as a research tool/process were interviewed people who experiment with the forms, functions and meanings of their bodies through these practices. These people shared their stories, explaining how the extreme body modifications allowed more fluid experiences and relationships with their identities and corporeities, favoring other sensibilities and ways of inhabiting the world.
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Subjetividade, Corporalidade, Pesquisa narrativa