Foucault, Sexualidade e Intimidade Mediada pelo Digital
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Foucault, sexualidade, intimidade, mediatização, digitalResumo
A sexualidade e a intimidade são cada vez mais mediadas pelo digital, o que possibilita a criação, desenvolvimento e fortalecimento de conexões, isto é, relações digitais. Por sua vez, a sexualidade e a intimidade são pilares da construção de identidade individual. A abordagem foucaultiana, sobretudo a presente na obra História da Sexualidade (1978), permite uma visão crítica às estruturas discursivas de poder heteronormativas. Neste trabalho procura-se seguir esse pensamento foucaultiano à luz dos adventos tecnológicos e consequentes mudanças nos usos, apropriações e interações com os média, em particular as plataformas digitais. Abordando criações digitais como plataformas online, aplicações de encontros, reapropriações de outras plataformas ou pornografia online, chega-se a uma dualidade que só Foucault poderia esclarecer. Por um lado, sugere-se um novo expandir discursivo sobre sexualidade e intimidade. Por outro, também se aponta para o aumento da capacidade de controlo – nomeadamente autoimposto – e de vigia da proliferação digital. Instiga-se o desenvolvimento de outras reflexões sobre o panorama da sexualidade e da intimidade construídas através da mediatização digital – situação agudizada pelo distanciamento social resultante da pandemia da COVID-19 -, tendo por base as teorias de Foucault para um constante olhar crítico da sociedade.
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