Modificação corporal extrema: o choque e o protesto de uma mercadoria estranha
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2021-03-10
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The object of this work is extreme body modification, which uses the techniques of tattoos,
piercings, stretchings, implants, scarifications and nullifications to produce radical changes in
the body. We aim to understand how extreme body modification synthesizes the social forces
that produce strangeness and tension the loss of humanity. Since there is no term to refer to
people who perform extreme body modification, we propose a new word, calling fans as
mutassomaxiados. The theoretical basis is formed by Marx, Lukács, Gramsci, Benjamin and
Marcuse. The determinant process of the investigated object is the rupture between the
subject and the object, in which men began to sell labor in the historical form of the labor
force, ensured by private property. In this form of social organization, the alienated work
deposited in the object hides in itself, developing the fetish and reification, producing the
aforementioned loss of humanity – which is not complete and definitive, but is wide and
substantial –, because, man loses the object, itself and the other, compromising its own
constitution. In this historical context, we understand that extreme body modification is a
protest against these losses that limit and impoverish the human condition, using an
appearance that is foreign to the hegemonic, capable of provoking shock and astonishment,
denouncing the dehumanization of life, dehumanizing themselves, or that is, seeking a body
image that approaches the non-human. However, in a contradictory way, extreme body
modification is a commodity, carrying within itself all the constitutive foundations of
capitalism, against which it protests and despises, revealing to us that we are facing an object
that expresses the losses and precariousness of the human, but it is also a movement of
resistance and facing the established
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TOMAZETT, Luciano de Castro. Modificação corporal extrema: o choque e o protesto de uma mercadoria estranha. 2021. 142 f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2021.