El cuerpo como espacio de resistencia: Foucault, las heterotopías y el cuerpo experiencial
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2019-03-26
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Benavides Franco, Tulio Alexander
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Universidad EAFIT
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En virtud del carácter difuso que Foucault atribuye a las relaciones de poder, es posible afirmar que la sujeción de los cuerpos nunca es absoluta, de modo que estos no son algo inexorablemente determinado por el ejercicio del poder. En este artículo se muestra de qué manera el cuerpo, en tanto que blanco principal de un poder preponderantemente físico, puede en forma eventual constituirse en escenario de des-sujeción y resistencia, en el “lugar” desde el cual ese mismo poder puede ser resistido. Esto, gracias a lo que en este artículo se describe como una “condición heterotópica” del cuerpo, que implicaría la excedencia y el desbordamiento de los procesos de sujeción, y que, en última instancia, permitiría hablar del “cuerpo experiencial” como el espacio en el que tendría lugar la puesta en cuestión de la propia subjetividad.
Considering the diffuse character Foucault attributes to power relations, it is possible to assert that the subjection of bodies is never absolute, so they are not inexorably determined by the exercise of power. This article shows how the body, as the main target of a predominantly physical power, can eventually become the realm of un-subjection and resistance, the "place" from which that power can be resisted. This is possible in virtue of what is described in this paper as a "heterotopic condition" of the body, which would entail the exceedance and the overflow of subjection processes, and which would ultimately enable to speak about the "experiential body" as the space where the questioning of one's own subjectivity would take place.
Considering the diffuse character Foucault attributes to power relations, it is possible to assert that the subjection of bodies is never absolute, so they are not inexorably determined by the exercise of power. This article shows how the body, as the main target of a predominantly physical power, can eventually become the realm of un-subjection and resistance, the "place" from which that power can be resisted. This is possible in virtue of what is described in this paper as a "heterotopic condition" of the body, which would entail the exceedance and the overflow of subjection processes, and which would ultimately enable to speak about the "experiential body" as the space where the questioning of one's own subjectivity would take place.