Authenticity and performance: The construction of the self as a visible character

Authors

  • Paula Sibilia PPGCOM-UFF

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2015.173.09

Abstract

This article attempts to adjust the definition of performance in order to examine certain aspects of media and artistic practices developed in recent decades. With the intensification of some aspects of the society of the spectacle, significant changes are affecting subjectivity and sociability. These new lifestyles stimulate the construction of oneself under the gaze of others, promoting a generalization of performative gestures in an attempt to make oneself visible in order to “be somebody”. It should be inquired the role of authenticity in this situation, as a quality also claimed but which seems contradictory with the performatic spectacularization.

Keywords: performance, subjectivity, mass media, visibility.

Author Biography

Paula Sibilia, PPGCOM-UFF

Paula Sibilia é professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação (PPGCOM) e do Departamento de Estudos Culturais e Mídia da UFF, autora dos livros O homem pós-orgânico: Corpo, subjetividade e tecnologias digitais (2002), O show do eu: A intimidade como espetáculo (2008) e Redes ou paredes: A escola em tempos de dispersão (2012), todos publicados também em espanhol. É mestre em Comunicação (UFF), doutora em Comunicação e Cultura (UFRJ) e em Saúde Coletiva (UERJ). Em 2012 fez pós-doutorado na Université Paris VIII, da França. Atualmente é bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa pelo CNPq e Jovem Cientista do Nosso Estado pela FAPERJ, além de coordenar o PPGCOM-UFF. www.paulasibilia.com.

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Published

2015-09-22

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 3 (2015): September/December

Section

Articles

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