Seminar of the Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group
Women on stage in cyberculture: blog writing and the reconfigurations of (inter)subjectivities

Marilda Ionta

January 13th, 2009, 17:30, CES Seminar Room

Presentation
This seminar seeks to problematize and outline some axes of reflection concerning friendship and subjectivity in the present day, parting from an interactive space and a peculiar type of writing that emerges with the expansion of digital culture – the weblogs. This communication form of the so-called "control societies" has brought about changes in friendship experiences and in the notion of interiority, privacy and intimacy. Meanwhile, the intersubjective relations mediated by the new technologies do not seem to alter the friendship policy of modernity centred in equality, similarity and proximity. This policy was denounced by philosophers of difference as carrier of the germ that suppresses alterity, conflict and multiplicities in benefit of consensus and fusion inoculating xenofobian identitarian reactions.

Biographic note
Professor of History at the Federal University of Viçosa. Member of the Gender Studies Research Group at UFV and the Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity in Ancient History and Post-Modernity Research Group, State University of Campinas.