O uso desviado do espaço

Abstract

Counterconduct is an autonomous act, for it faces disciplinary power relations in order to attain an individual or collective will. Everyday life experiences related to the free appropriation of city structures are the embodiment of Foucault's concept of counterconduct in actions located in time and space. Because of its provocative and present character, these experiences are built as diversions, the Situationist term that expresses the overcoming of tradition by performing and experimenting aesthetics as political action. Thus the diverted use of space is a tactic that confronts the control over social behavior in daily life. It manifests one of the many possible uses for the space and, for being essentially creative, it stands as a resistance practice against alienation, a typical feature of the Society of the Spectacle. The diverted use is an uprising of bodies that occupy urban structures in a critical and autonomous way. As in a game, the aesthetic experience of the body in the city points out the limitations imposed by governmentality, that decides how the space is structured, and then suggests changes and the creation of new rules that meet collective needs and desires. The diverted use of space produces situations of aesthetic experience based on tactical inventiveness that disobeys the programmed use for social and spatial structures in the city, it is, thus, counterconduct lived in everyday life.