Dissident bodies in association and recognition

Abstract

In this article I analyze the necessary condition of association between bodies and objects of consumption as a way to make viable the representation of groups dissidents from cisheteronormativity. Through phenomenological analysis based on facts and public events in Berlin, I problematize the precarious condition of dissident bodies and identities when individualized by relations with other subjects, or even when disassociated from objects in the aesthetic scope of material and urban culture arising from Modernity. Dissident representation in the public sphere tends to become unviable due to the hegemonic condition of heterosexual desires. However, when this multitude of dissident bodies associates with objects and consumer goods, a tenuous field of possible negotiations and visibilities opens up. Thus, in addition to the conformation of assemblies between dissident bodies to make their social representations visible, this association is usually linked to the aesthetics of the contemporary cultural industry as a means of negotiating their appearances through their fetishized bodies, involving pleasure and profit.