Foucault and Recife's new movie films: critique of the sexual apparatus and new forms of living together

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https://doi.org/10.36517/arf.v17i1.95421

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Foucault. Cinema. Sexual apparatus. Aesthetic of existence. New forms of living.

Abstract

The text establishes a dialogue between Foucault's notions of sexuality apparatus, heterotopia and cynical parrhesia and two films from Recife's new cinema, Febre do Rato, by Claudio Assis (2011), and Tattoo, by Hilton Lacerda (2012). It involves resorting to Foucault's work to understand certain central aspects of those two films, as well as resorting to those films to test the hypothesis that Foucault's final analyzes of the aesthetics of the Cynics' existence would constitute a critical counterpoint to his previous discussion about the capture of bodies and sexual conducts by the modern sexuality apparatus. The two films seem to give plausibility to that hypothesis, as they are examples of courageous manifestations of another way of living according to a truth that opposes modern mechanisms of disciplining and governing bodies and sexual conducts. As heterotopic community spaces that give centrality to bodies and pleasures, the two films allow us to understand the counter-power of contemporary queer-inspired minority movements.

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André de Macedo Duarte, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Professor Titular do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR/CNPq). Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Professora Titular do Departamento de Teoria e Prática de Ensino da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR/CNPq). Doutora em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).

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2025-07-31 — Updated on 2025-10-03

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Duarte, A. de M., & César, M. R. de A. (2025). Foucault and Recife’s new movie films: critique of the sexual apparatus and new forms of living together. Argumentos - Revista De Filosofia, 17(1), 202–214. https://doi.org/10.36517/arf.v17i1.95421

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2025)

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Dossiê Foucault: vidas infames e insubmissas

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