Discursos e expressões: uma cartografia da adolescência contemporânea

Abstract

The object of this research is to outline a cartography of ethic-aesthetics adolescence expressions, based on theoretical contributions from contemporary philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. The present work is a bibliographic-interpretative qualitative research. It utilizes focused collective interviews with four groups of adolescents from Francisco Beltrão Paraná, Brazil. We have adopted the cartography as method that, unlike label maps, does approximate the rhizome notion in accordance with Deleuze and Guattari (2011) and thus, is configured as a mobility exercise, as processes accompaniment (BARROS; KASTRUP, 2012). The methodology aims to promote a critic to the Adolescence representations on its variable identity definitions. The fundament of this philosophic-methodological approach is the possibility to understand the functioning of contemporary expressive variables of adolescence. The plurality philosophy orients the discussion assumptions and, on this aspect, adopts lines and devices as complementary and essential concepts. The lines contribute for the adolescence mapping from their trans-connections and their variable manners and positions expressed through teenagers singularities in question. The work uses as presupposition the Philosophy of Becoming concerning adolescents to highlight the differential operationalization on their expressions, talks, attitudes, gestures, postures and clothes. On such perspective, the approach reveals the inexistence of great convictions and, at the same time, shows the subjectivation processes that consubstantiate on the ways of being and participating of contemporary culture. Through relationships among themselves, teenagers produce games of truth mediated through technology and through the resistance of external practices of objectification, they operate the notion of the teen-becoming-culture carved into spaces they occupy and on the forms of contestation and resistance. As result from this conceptual and epistemological endeavor, this research has revealed a vital perspective of conceiving adolescence as it has shown that, based on their daily experiences, adolescents experience their lives centered on the record of the intensity of living.