O CINEMA CONTEMPORÂNEO NA BIOPOLÍTICA: O POÇO, A CULTURA DO RALO E O LIXO SOCIAL

Wesley Espinosa Santana

doi:10.5935/2177-5672/trama.v12n2p98-110

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the film source O Poço, 2019, we built a historical-political narrative of the use of the body and subjectivities to illustrate the formation of the biopolitical state in Brazil in the mid-1930s, in the period known as the Vargas Era. The condition of this biopolitical State is given from the function of consolidating industrial capitalism, including/excluding urban workers, promoting social rights and the use of biomedia. In this context, biopolitics produces the state of exception and concentration camps (AGAMBEN, 2010) that, fictionally, we find in the filmic message of human mediocrity through greed, selfishness and consumption, where most live under the politics of survival, body and subjectivity, guaranteeing social inequalities, the culture of the drain and social waste. &nbsp

Highlights

Based on the analysis of the source film O poço (2019), we built a historical-political narrative of the use of the body and subjectivities to illustrate the formation of the biopolitical state in Brazil in the mid-1930s, in the period known as the Vargas Era
The condition of this biopolitical State is given from the function of consolidating industrial capitalism, including/excluding urban workers, promoting social rights and the use of biomedia
Biopolitics produces the state of exception and concentration camps (AGAMBEN, 2014a) that, fictionally, we find in the filmic message of human mediocrity through greed, selfishness and consumption, in which most live under the politics of survival, body and subjectivity, guaranteeing social inequalities, the culture of the drain and social waste

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Introduction

Essas características produziram um sistema político-econômico-social-cultural que consagrou o poder como biopoder e a política como biopolítica, em que os governos varguistas incluíram os trabalhadores e controlavam-nos pelo uso do corpo, da produção, do não corpo e das subjetividades como garantia da permanência histórica da desigualdade e da exploração da maioria pela minoria.

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