Comer na contemporaneidade: heterotopias alcoólicas, excessos do corpo e uma culinária indócil

Abstract

Although permeated by several factors, eating is a behaviour that have science as a hegemonic guide: a logo that understand a health body as the result of moralized and rational health care. In this view there are no place for what Georges Bataille called unproductive expenditures, that is, expenditures that look for illogical thrill states, out of reason, capable to lead the body to exhaustion. Therefore, beyond an attitude of health maintenance, eating is outlined as a human endeavour and, as such, is also an activity of excesses. This is one of the topics of interest in In Search of Lost Time (SLT). The main purpose of this research was analyse the link between alcohol and excessive behaviour in the book. To do so, the book was read and organized in a digital file that supported the analysis. In the book, many alcoholic beverages were used beer, cognac, cider, liquor, Mazagran, gloria, red, sparking and port wines. The alcohol allowed individuals to access their body, to access heterotopias of deviation: an outside space, for people with deviant behaviour. Body is degenerated by his excesses: due to alcohol consumption and accessing heterotopias, especially during sadomasochism scenes. Practices of food consumption, as a human product, keep not only the nutritious and raw materials, but innutrition and excrescence as the result of a indocile culinary, which is the idea that our most inhuman traits – violence, sadism, creation and love – are also part of an eating for great health. When a indocile culinary promotes health, it must understand it as the individual hability to create what is missing