Corpo político e disputas em rede: discursos, performatividades e dissenso nas lutas políticas contemporâneas

Abstract

This work is about the production of a political body and the network of disputes, in the context of the transformations experienced in political struggles in recent years. We can see there the emergence of new political subjects from the influence of the digital communication technologies, as well as the public space, which is taken as a political space and is also reframed as a hybrid and mediatized public space. The public space is the space where the common is produced, which in this thesis, is debated by the figure of dissent. Disputes are approached by their network aspect, based on the Actor-Network Theory approach (Latour, 2008), and the presentation of the network disputes was done following the “clues to the cartographic method” (Passos et al., 2009). Network disputes are taken as a communicational, political and social phenomenon of our days, in which the network approach is consistent with the complexity in which the phenomenon is inserted. The body involved in these transformations comes into play in the scene of the struggles that take place on the streets and in the aesthetic awareness of art. The practical and theoretical approach of the body observes the production of political performativities (from groups that were historically constituted as social minorities), and poetic ones, (in practices that connect art and political activism).