The AIDS chronic apparatus and the discourses of seropositivity: an analysis of the enunciations of Brazilian and Portuguese women

• Autor(a) principal: Butturi Junior, Atilio
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Lara, Camila de Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ANPOLL (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/1735
• topic: Seropositivity; HIV-positive women; AIDS chronic apparatus; Brazil; Portugal; Soropositividade; Mulheres soropositivas; Dispositivo crônico da aids; Brasil; Portugal

This article aims to analyze discourses of hiv-positive women from Brazil and Portugal, interviewed between 2019 and 2020. To do so, it starts from a discussion about biopolitics and governmentality, relating them to new materialisms. Initially, the article describes the functioning of the aids apparatus and the AIDS chronic apparatus, in view of their fundamental strategies and the forms of subjectivity they produce. Then, it briefly presents the event of the feminization of the epidemic. Finally, the analyses point to two axial strategies: the first, related to the agentivity of drugs and the production of bio-ascetic practices; the second, linked to the forms of vulnerability implied in the gendred character of seropositivity. In both cases, an ambiguous discourse is invented, either of accountability or of abandonment of the HIV-positive life, despite the role of discipline and security, as well as an agonistic between a control by power and practices of self-invention in the precarious spaces in which they reinscribe themselves.