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comunicação, identidade e corpos ciborguizados no cinema

Abstract

This article presents conceptual approaches between communication, identity, and cyborgization, articulated through empirical traces found in representations of dissident bodies in cinematic works. It is grounded in the understanding of identity as a historical and discursive construct, marked by displacements and symbolic disputes, in which communication operates as a central field for the production of meanings and subjectivities. Through a bibliographic review, the LGBTQIAPN+ body is discussed as a territory of these disputes, considering forms of existence that destabilize normative frameworks of gender and sexuality. From Donna Haraway’s perspective, the cyborg, a hybrid of organism and machine, becomes a fundamental figure for understanding postmodern bodies as media of the self, bodies that can no longer be conceived within an essentialist, fixed, or binary logic. Such existences rupture and reposition notions of identity within the social imaginary, while also revealing the logics of marginalization that classify them as deviations from the norm. Thus, the article identifies cyborgization as an analytical key within the field of communication for rethinking the symbolic space occupied by these bodies in the social imaginary.