Technologies of the Self and Accounts of Oneself: Political and Aesthetic Elaboration of Heterotopic and Unframed Experience
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Accounts of Oneself, Experience, Heterotopia, UnframingAbstract
The aim of this article is to reflect on two possibilities of political and aesthetical experience that can transform oneself. We dialogue with the reflections of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler on the techniques of the self and political subjectivation, which offer us a perspective of resistance and experimentation, to characterize the transformative power of heterotopic and unframing experience. Through a theoretical approach, we intend to bring points of approximation into play considering the necessity to promote changes in the frameworks that structure the architecture of the visible, sayable and thinkable. These alterations are a product, simultaneously, of the emergence of processes of political subjectivation and the unframing of schemes of biopolitical control which allows disidentification with an imposed identity, modifying the relations between elements that locate subjects and group in a given social order. Both authors affirm the importance of questioning schemes of legibility and intelligibility of the world so that we can imagine and effectively build a common non-hierarchic order, that recognizes the dignity of all existences. We believe that heterotopic experiences, as well as unframing experiences can be disruptive and transformative, for they rely on the double capacity to critically reflect on the power-knowledge relations that constitute one's subjectivity and the capacity to engage in self-transformation practices that can modify the way one engages in community issues.
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