El cuerpo como [contra]utopía en las escrituras cuir del Yo

Abstract

The present work maintains that against the grain of the Western philosophical and religious tradition that has invented the soul’s utopia to devalue and condemn the body to the place of the abject, the writings about the self, today, have as their horizon the proposal of a counter-utopia that places in the center of thought and political action the carnal materiality of a protean, flowing and undisciplined body. It is a Body-I, and no longer a cartesian Ego corpus that put intellect, rationality or the spiritual in the place of the superior. This way of conceiving subjectivity as existing corporality does not adhere to any aesthetic, racial, sexual or gender norm, it configures itself as an animal becoming and places desire at the center of the flowing movement.