This paper discusses the importance of media context and advertising for composition of meanings around the body. This symbolic activity shows up as a privileged place of modern subject construction by evidencing significant traits related to corporeality and limits in the reactive formation of meanings related to body: dispositions that guide processes of subjectivity in cycles of provisional characterizations. This paper articulates issues around body/discourse/subjectivity relation. We build a dialogue between thinkers of different fields to analyze the body's role when it is invited to consume in subtle emanations of advertising discourse. In that sense, this paper reflects on the dynamics of truth games and contemporary techniques of self awareness, while proposing an experience of care and freedom of choice related to ontological security, often in view of coherence and social acceptability.
body; consumption; subjectivity; advertising