Youthful werewolf: A biopolitical reading of adolescence

Authors

  • Marcia Tiburi Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2016.202.10466

Abstract

The paper proposes a reading of “adolescence” as biopolitics matter from the theoretical topic of “bare life” as it appears in authors such as Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault and Agamben. Questioning the hermeneutic violence on the basis of the identity construction “teenager”, the article seeks to show how the movie “An American Werewolf in London” (Landis, 1981) has expounded the relationship between adolescence and bare life. The werewolf is its allegory. Emancipating youth discursive yoke to which they are exposed as bare life constitutes its ethical impulse.

Keywords: werewolf, biopolitics, psychologizing of adolescence, youth.

Author Biography

Marcia Tiburi, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Marcia Tiburi é graduada em filosofia e artes e mestre e doutora em filosofia (UFRGS, 1999). Publicou diversos livros de filosofia, entre eles  “As Mulheres e a Filosofia” (Ed. Unisinos, 2002), Filosofia Cinza – a melancolia e o corpo nas dobras da escrita (Escritos, 2004); “Mulheres, Filosofia ou Coisas do Gênero” (EDUNISC, 2008), “Filosofia em Comum” (Ed. Record, 2008), “Filosofia Brincante” (Record, 2010), “Olho de Vidro” (Record 2011), “Filosofia Pop” (Ed. Bregantini, 2011) e Sociedade Fissurada (Record, 2013), Filosofia Prática, ética, vida cotidiana, vida virtual (Record, 2014). Publicou também romances: Magnólia (2005), A Mulher de Costas (2006) e O Manto (2009) e Era meu esse Rosto (Record, 2012). É autora ainda dos livros Diálogo/desenho (2010), Diálogo/dança (2011), Diálogo/Fotografia (2011) e Diálogo/Cinema (2013) e Diálogo/Educação (2014), todos publicados pela editora SENAC-SP. Em 2015 publicou Como Conversar com um fascista – Reflexões sobre o Cotidiano Autoritário Brasileiro (Record, 2015). É professora do programa de pós-graduação em Educação, Arte e História da Cultura da Universidade Mackenzie e colunista da revista Cult.

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Published

2016-03-11

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2016): May/August

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