Por um feminismo pirata: cartografias de qualquer mulher no Facebook

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate the production processes of Brasilian feminist subjectivities engendered on social networking sites, particularly on Facebook. It is justified from two points: first, by the growing popularization of feminist debates in Brazil in recent years, especially in spaces constituted by social networks; secondly, by understanding, based on Guattari’s reading, that it is impossible to talk about any field of thought today without considering the influence of technologies on the processes of production of subjectivity. It asks, then, which existential territories emerge as a possibility in this sea of Brazilian feminisms that populate Facebook? It starts from the referential of the philosophies of difference, particularly the work of Deleuze and Guattari, to show a cartography of these territories. The strategy for setting such cartography into motion starts by creating a conceptual character, who varies between “any woman” and “a pirate” who, in displacement across the Ocean / Facebook, pirates elements for the constitution of a way of being. For the design of the maps that trigger the writing, Brasilian feminist Facebook pages suggested by the platform algorithm were monitored, month by month during the full moon in the first nine months of two thousand and nineteen. From the signs emitted by the publications made in these pages, a set of nine extensive maps was drawn. This set of nine extensive maps was then superimposed and processed by pirate software, revealing six intensive maps, six existential territories, which any woman calls Tides. Next, the tides are visited, and any woman’s impressions are recorded in travel reports. The existential territories visited concern feminist humor; debates around representation and representativeness; to gender violence; the struggles of black feminism; the relations between feminism, ecology and capitalism; and, finally, the concept of feminism itself, its limits and disputes. From this expedition, a style of being a feminist and a pirate professor is asserted; someone who writes, learns and teaches in Brasil, but whose ethics of looting allows her universe of reference (and of those who study and learn with her) to be expanded by the ocean from which she plunders elements for the composition of her existential territory.