Como se faz um corpo queer?: revolução biomolecular contra o império farmacopornográfico

Abstract

The objective of this work is to understand the processes for making a queer body, or to point out the possible ways to activate this queerness. In this sense, it was important to understand the modes of production of subject-bodies operated by the functioning of the capitalist bipolar machine, to then think about and experiment with strategies, not only for resistance, but for the removal of this regime. Therefore, starting from a materialist perspective, I propose a first dialogue with Judith Butler's theory about the dialectic between the operation of power and language and the con-formation of bodies and subjectivities. Subsequently, and understanding the limits of Butler's thought, I suggest a cartography of the techniques and technologies in the manufacture of bodies, guided by the thoughts of Michel Foucault and Paul Preciado, articulating with the investment of the three social machines presented by Deleuze and Guattari. So, I make invitation to think of the body as a potentiality, beyond the incursions of power and its technologies, involved in a movement of production of difference – a queer body. In this way, I bet on the notion of queer/queerness not only in opposition to normativity, but as a horizon of futurity and hope. Thus, I suggest the undertaking of techniques of self-experimentation (Preciado) and use of bodies (Agamben) as means to activate the queer body as a monstrous war machine against the pharmacopornographic empire.