The body as a war declaration: thinking the limits of identity as a category of analysis

Abstract

Erasures and blurs are marks present in the subjects of postmodernity, in this way, cracks in a Modern thought are realized and its consequences are felt in the plurality of their actions. Taking the body as a central locus of analysis, in this work we dig a discursive order that in identifying the body, as soon as it closes a gradient of possibilities through the channeling of desire. For this, we turn to Post-Colonial and Queer theorists and theoreticians, through a post-structuralist approach. To think of the limits of identity as a category of analysis is, therefore, to rehearse a policy of difference that reflects on the flows without interrupting or interdicting them, and, above all, without ignoring the material dynamics of the violence distributed over the bodies that operate outside the hegemonic logic, that is, racialized bodies, sexually disobedient and disobedient of gender.

Keywords

• Identidades. Diferenças. Corpo-dispositivo. Biopoder. Necropolítica.