The (re)invention of the face: a study of contemporary practices of imprisonment and objectivation

• Autor(a) principal: Felipe de Lima, Jheny Iordany
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Costa Amorim, Marcelo Vinicius, Franceschini, Bruno
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ANPOLL (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/1739
• topic: Foucauldian Discursive Studies; Care of the self; Subjectivity; Instagram; Estudos Discursivos Foucaultianos; Cuidado de si; Subjetividade; Instagram

This research, based on the notions of diagnosis of the present and the aesthetics of existence, presented by Michel Foucault, articulated to the reading of neoliberal psychopolitics, by Byung-Chul Han, seeks to understand certain modes of thought in the historical rationality of the present and its unfolding in the scope of the production of subjectivity in the social network Instagram as an event that bursts in the current historical moment. In order to do so, Foucauldian archegenealogy is the method chosen to treat the statements in order to describe how users of certain online digital tools become subjects of a specific knowledge, the pathologization discourse. It is proposed, then, the analysis of the effects of truth produced by the use of this new configuration of virtual socialization, in the hypothesis of finding there a certain reinvention of faciality, a search for unreal standards of perfection and beauty. In this working hypothesis, the issue of imprisonment and objectification of subjects through the media and social networks in the 21st century is pursued. In this way, the results indicate the encounter with the ruptures and the relationships between statements, understanding the face/body/skin, as the stage where the clash of the lines of knowledge-power splits and/or inaugurates ways of existing.