Aphrodisia digitalis, sexualidade e as suicide girls: manifestações no digital via imagens na rede Instagram

Abstract

This research discusses the relationship between the device of sexuality and its current manifestation in the digital world based on Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben. We advanced in the analysis of digital images of a group of women who call themselves Suicide Girls. These are images that work, modeled for voyeurism on the digital social network Instagram. We start from the trajectory of the Suicide Girls to the question of which device we are dealing with from a digital perspective. Listing a path in four designated chapters: Acts, Desires, Pleasure and Aphrodiosphere, in reference to the conception of the term Aphrodisia, related to the Greek experience on sexuality and the notion of aphrosphere in Peter Sloterdijk. This research has a marked connection with some works by Michel Foucault, especially in aspects that help us to identify Aphrodisia Digitalis, through a classic rescue of the term and an analysis of sexuality in current times, via digital devices. We use categories in the form of heterotopes, highlighting the notion of spatialities and subjective immersions. The proposal also deals with aspects related to the surplus of vital energy based on Georges Bataille and the notion of expenditure, contemporary erotic practices on pornography and sexuality with Attimonelli and Susca, Byung-Chul Han and Paul B. Preciado. Aspects related to the philosophy of image with Vilém Flusser and Norval Baitello Júnior, in addition to the modern digital scene about consumption in the light of Gilles Lipovetsky. We end with the notion of self-generated receptacles, where everything found is subjected to symbolic acclimatization. In image politics we work from the current perspective of Giselle Beiguelman. We propose an immersion in relevant concepts for the social, raising discussions about digital images, in order to broaden the understanding and propose a genealogy of sexuality in the contemporary and its functional projection in the dimension between the digital and the subjective in a new device of sexuality. Its manifestation stands out more and more, as something irreversible, dramatic and essentially seductive.