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Alterity, social suffering and political power in Facebook accounts of oneself on the SP Invisível project

Abstract

The aim of this article is to discuss how images and texts that configure the testimonies of the Project São Paulo Invisible can characterize a political power that drift not only of enunciative possibilities offered by Facebook, but also of the tactics of individuals and groups that refuse being positioned inside established discursive orders. By political power of the statements and enunciation ways displayed by Facebook we are considering the questioning attempts to the absence of a speaking place to subaltern people and the elaboration of “accounts of oneself” marked by social suffering and lack of recognition. We analyzed 17 posts in the Facebook page of the project between 3 and 27 February 2015. We also analyzed the first 30 commentaries to each post in order to know the moral impact of the narratives and to verify if the anonymous portrayed by the project had participated of these exchanges as interlocutors. The analyzed images and stories suggest ways of political subjectivation marked by the search of emancipation and recognition, but frequently constrained by mechanisms of visibility that can oppress, silence and enhance opacity.

Keywords
SP Invisível; Facebook; Social suffering; Subordination; Accounts of Oneself

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