A diffractive analysis of documentary film No existimosMaking visible the invisible with an eccentric technology of gender

  1. Calderón-Sandoval, Orianna 1
  2. Sánchez Espinosa, Adelina 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Revista:
Sociología y tecnociencia: Revista digital de sociología del sistema tecnocientífico

ISSN: 1989-8487

Año de publicación: 2021

Título del ejemplar: Seeking Eccentricity

Volumen: 11

Número: 1

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

Leyendo entre sí una serie de ideas planteadas por Teresa de Lauretis (1987; 1990), Donna Haraway (1988; 1992), Annette Kuhn (1994) y Karen Barad (2007), este artículo aborda el cine documental feminista como aparato de difracción y como tecnología del género excéntrica. El artículo está dividido en cuatro secciones. La primera presenta la definición del cine como tecnología de género y la del sujeto del feminismo como excéntrico. Combinamos este planteamiento inspirado en de Lauretis y Kuhn con la propuesta de Barad y Haraway de la difracción como metáfora óptica para entender la construcción de conocimientos. En la segunda sección, planteamos qué implicaría la aplicación de una metodología difractiva al análisis del cine documental mediante tres herramientas metodológicas: emocionalidad (Ahmed, 2014), materialidad (Olivieri, 2012) y performatividad (Bruzzi, 2000; Butler, 1990, 1993, 2015; Barad, 2007). En la tercera sección aplicamos esto al análisis del documental español No Existimos (Solano, 2014). Concluimos resumiendo cómo los paradigmas difractivo y excéntrico pueden contribuir a una mejor comprensión de las posibilidades del cine documental feminista para co-crear y re-hacer el mundo.

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