A escrita como autoformação e resistência: Foucault e Nietzsche e a criação de mundos e histórias

Abstract

In this work, a bibliographic investigation was carried out with the objective of thinking how Nietzsche and also Foucault, thinkers of power relations, find forms of resistance to certain practices of the exercise of power. Without going into the merit of the functioning of power devices, it is understood that their effect consists in a normalization of bodies. Therefore, resistance must be thought towards a differentiation of docility. In our interpretation, both philosophers find in the practice of writing, characterized as experimentation, the possibility of disengagement, since, by showing the effects of power to themselves through an ontological writing, they effect a shift in their own thinking. Resistance does not work in an individualistic way, understood in our text as self-practice, as well as power, it articulates subjectivities in a grid. Therefore, in addition to thinking of writing as a practice of self-subjectification, we also continue to think of it as a practice that has the effect of inciting the reader to do problems and experiments just like the writer. This is not a matter of propagating the philosophical thought of these philosophers as dogmatism, which would be an upside down standardization, but rather the practice of thinking. If there is an attempt to differentiate these authors, it is to be expected that their philosophical stylistic does not reproduce the regulations of traditional philosophical discourse, as it is, not in its entirety, committed to epistemological purposes only. What is found in them is a style that, at the same time, resembles and departs from tradition, as it is not a purely conceptual strategy, approaching aesthetic experience. Fictional writing finds in these authors this function of producing a discourse that makes the aesthetic experiment possible to displace the reader, which is called genealogy. Genealogy, as a practice of writing oneself, is simultaneously a subversive writing, of resistance.