La estética de los placeres: un análisis genealógico sobre la producción y constitución de la relación cuerpo-placer en el dispositivo educativo en Colombia

Abstract

The thesis critically explores the restraint between the production and constitution of subjects in the school context, starting from the body-placer relationship. This investigation is highlighted in the line of investigation “Subjectividades, Diferencias y Narrativas” del Doctorado en Estudios Sociales de la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, que analyza problematizaciones associated with how the relationships of power produce and regulate subjetividades. At the same time, examine the alternatives of resistance expressed in specific ways as an ethical-political strategy in the life-power-culture context. From this perspective, the thesis contributes not only to the understanding of how the subjects are molded by institutional regulations, but also to the emerging issues of school issues in the context of the body-placer. The thesis is presented en dos partes. The first is centered on how educational institutions in Colombia function as devices that produce subjectivities aligned with the humanism-capitalism relationship, oriented towards productive, controlled and obedient people. Thus, the school acts as a biopolitical space that regulates the hearts through disciplinary practices, moralistic discourses and educational policies that limit the place to experiences related to citizenship and autonomy defined by the device. This represses the ethical formation and its relationship with the body-placer, adapting it to the gubernamental purposes through discursive and non-discursive practices. This process of subjective production is related to the technologies of power highlighted by Foucault, where educational institutions configure “truths” around the idea of ​​autonomy, normalizing the behavior of school children, and to the citizenry, homogenizing these subjects through supervision y control. In this context, the Doctorate in Social Studies, through his line “Subjectives, Differences and Narratives”, establishes an epistemological-political privilege interested in questioning how these “truths” are produced and their effects on the ethical training of the subjects involved. in the knowledge-power relationship, in this case, within the school system in Colombia. The second part of the investigation addresses the fields of possibilities that emerge from reflexive practices within educational institutions. Here, the placer appears as an strategic platform for what subjetive things are expressed that give rise to new ethical formations. These reflexive practices, through cinema, dance, music and play, allow school students to understand the hegemonic norms that attempt to control their hearts and pleasures, opening up critical spaces that question stable and visible truths. more free and creative. This field of possibilities reverberates the notion of “aesthetics of existence” proposed by Foucault, where the school suggestions, by experimenting with their pleasures in a critical way, not only undermine the subjective production that has suggested them, but that they generate ethical-aesthetic-political movements. These imply a work on both sides and a creative and disruptive possibility of configuring a distinct form of being in the body-placer order, generating connections that can potentially impact the students involved in these discursive and non-discursive practices. Thus, an “aesthetics of pleasure” is presented as an alternative to resistance and creation, which binds criticism, fiction and experimentation, questioning the “truths” that have constituted them. This aesthetic proposes narratives about alternative possibilities, supported in the pleasure-freedom relationship, and experimented with in a critical and prudent manner. In this direction, the thesis suggests that the placer, in place of verse as disruptive to the educational goals of school, can be converted into a herramienta for personal and collective reinvention through critical movements that signify ethics as a space of freedom and creation.