The monstrosity of the beauty of the apparent, the bodies and communities of the possible: freaks and the shape of water, enclaves of biopolitical analysis on the global social crisis

Alpha (Osorno) 56:82-106 (2023)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Resumen: El siguiente ensayo realiza un análisis crítico de los discursos/prácticas de la modernidad desde la biopolítica en torno a la anormalidad, la ciencia (como tecnociencia) y las posibilidades de comunidad que existen en las relaciones de las/los marginados/as. Tomando como referentes las películas Freaks y La Forma del Agua. Mostrando cómo el cine juega y propone elementos críticos de estas prácticas/discursos de la modernidad. Dentro de esta anormalidad se considerará a la monstruosidad como metáfora y como realidad corpórea, y las mujeres como cuerpos limítrofes y marginales del reparto (en términos de Rancière). Un análisis que juega con la contingencia de la crisis social que atravesamos a nivel mundial, así como de los fragmentos sociales y corporales, pero que, sin embargo, en sus entrañas posibilitan otras formas de relaciones, otros tejidos y posibilidades de comunidad. Abstract: The following essay makes a critical analysis of the discourses/practices of modernity from the perspective of biopolitics around abnormality, science (as technoscience) and the possibilities of community that exist in the relationships of the marginalized. Taking as referents the films Freaks and The Shape of Water. Showing how cinema plays and proposes critical elements of these practices/discourses of modernity. Within this abnormality, we will consider monstrosity as metaphor and corporeal reality, and women as borderline and marginal bodies of the cast (in Rancière's terms). An analysis that plays with the contingency of the social crisis we are going through worldwide, as well as the social and corporal fragments, but which, nevertheless, in their entrails make possible other forms of relationships, other fabrics and possibilities of community.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,283

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

On Beauty. Plotinus - unknown - Phainomena 72.
The Beauty in Perfect Imperfection.Stephen Buetow & Katharine Wallis - 2017 - Journal of Medical Humanities 40 (3):389-394.
Monstrosity and the Limits of the Intellect: Philosophy as Teratomachy in Descartes.Filippo Del Luchesse - 2011 - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 19 (1):107-134.
Ethnicity, Race, and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor.Noel Carroll - 2000 - In Peg Zeglin Brand (ed.), Beauty Matters. Indiana University Press. pp. 37-56.
The Monstrosity of Philosophy.Igor E. Klyuakanov - 2019 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 62 (8):98-121.
Beauty.Roger Scruton - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
What makes bodies beautiful.Anton Leist - 2003 - Leist, Anton . What Makes Bodies Beautiful. Journal of Philosophy and Medicine, 28:187-219.
Beauty and education.Joe Winston - 2010 - New York: Routledge.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-10-02

Downloads
8 (#1,323,248)

6 months
3 (#984,114)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references