Corpo-reality in contemporary times: body capital
The following essay will focus on the construction of contemporary body-realities and bodily projects, transversalized by the capitalist economic system. In today's Western, capitalist world, our materiality (the body) is shaped and signified differently than it was a century ago. We manage our...
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://cuadernosdelciesal.unr.edu.ar/index.php/inicio/article/view/159 |
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| Sumario: | The following essay will focus on the construction of contemporary body-realities and bodily projects, transversalized by the capitalist economic system. In today's Western, capitalist world, our materiality (the body) is shaped and signified differently than it was a century ago. We manage our appearance based on other parameters of desirability and status. The importance of this clarification lies in being able to reflect on bodily capital and the bodily realities that are configured under the dynamics of consumption that objectify bodies—our own and others'—at different levels of everyday life. The case of body projects was chosen because they exemplify how imaginaries about corporality and desire are established, tied to gender, racialization, socioeconomic status, and age. Therefore, the reflection will pivot on the concepts of body-reality, body project, and body capital to weave an argument that proposes a novel approach to body studies and their approach in contemporary societies. |
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