The politics and aesthetics in "Lixo Extraordinário": damage, dissent and disidentification

Authors

  • Angela Cristina Salgueiro Marques UFMG
  • Gustavo Senna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2013.69823

Keywords:

Politics, Aesthetics, Dissensus, Garbage collectors, Documentary.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the documentary Lixo Estraordinário (Waste Land) using the concepts provided by Jacques Rancière concerning politics and aesthetics. We search to understand the aesthetic basis of the concept of
politics and perceive them in the documentary. Our main goal is to show how some actions of the characters can produce "scenes of dissent" highlighting the way the creation of polemical scenes erupt within a common world already
established and provoke its destabilization. We believe its possible to relate the concept of "sans part" with the garbage collectors’ actions for they are depicted as marginalized people that are capable of produce speeches and give birth to a process of political subjetification. They are political subjects when they cease to identify themselves with the pejorative image associated with the garbage collectors. In this movement, a wrong becomes visible and we try to identify the
characters actions that point to a rupture to the name and place imputed on them by discursive means.

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Author Biographies

  • Angela Cristina Salgueiro Marques, UFMG
    Doutora em Comunicação Social pela UFMG. Professora do Programa de Pós-graduação dessa mesma instituição. Pesquisadora do CNPq.
  • Gustavo Senna
    Estudante de Iniciação Científica e graduando do Curso de Comunicação Social da UFMG.

Published

2013-12-30

Issue

Section

ARTICLES

How to Cite

The politics and aesthetics in "Lixo Extraordinário": damage, dissent and disidentification. (2013). Novos Olhares, 2(2), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2013.69823