Publication: Estudio filosófico-estético de la iconografía del cuerpo muscular en la comunicación de masas del siglo XX: el cuerpo hipertrofiado "bodybuilder" como símbolo social y como metáfora política
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2019-02-18
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En este trabajo se realiza un análisis simbólico y metafórico de un determinado tipo de cuerpo atlético: el cuerpo fisicoculturista, y de cómo la cultura, la política y la sociedad han utilizado esa forma atlética para irradiar tanto mensajes políticos como de otro tipo: estéticos, sociales, culturales, de producción materialista, sexuales, de género, etc. Más en concreto, queremos responder a la siguiente pregunta, al hilo de las manifestaciones de Jean-Luc Nancy sobre el poco interés que tiene el fisicoculturismo para la Filosofía: ¿Acaso el fisicoculturismo puede enseñar algo a la Filosofía? No es una pregunta original nuestra (no nos hubiéramos atrevido a contradecir directamente a Jean-Luc Nancy), pues nos apoyamos para ello en el mismo interrogante que el filósofo italiano Tomasso Ariemma ya dejó pergeñado en su momento (Il corpo preso con Filosofia), subyaciendo aquí ideas –no desarrolladas por Ariemma, solo indicadas en su breve libro, pero que hemos querido desarrollar nosotros en nuestra investigación utilizando siempre la perspectiva del cuerpo morfoatlético–, como la fenomenología del límite y de lo extremo en el cuerpo, la Filosofía de la exposición del cuerpo, la extensión del cuerpo y su impacto sobre el sujeto, la fenomenología del dolor y el sufrimiento en cuerpos llevados al límite, la fenomenología de la performance del cuerpo ante la mirada del otro, la posición de la enfermedad del cuerpo en nuestro ser (propugnando una ética de la enfermedad y contra la enfermedad de la ética que sublima la forma corporal por la mercantilización y la presión capitalista de nuestro tiempo), las imágenes y los cuerpos y su impacto sobre el sujeto actual, cómo es la estética en nuestra cultura de masas, llena de seres extremos, como los morfoatletas, pero también monstruos, vampiros, zombis, etc...
We have developed a symbolic and metaphorical analysis of a certain type of athletic body: the bodybuilder, and how culture, politics and society have used that athletic form to radiate both political and other messages: aesthetic, social, cultural, of materialistic production, sexual, gender, etc. More specifically, we´d answer the following question, in line with the statements of Jean-Luc Nancy about the little interest that bodybuilding has for Philosophy: Can bodybuilding teach something to Philosophy? It is not an original question of ours (we would not have dared to directly contradict Jean-Luc Nancy), because we support ourselves for this in the same question that the Italian philosopher Tomasso Ariemma already left sketched in one of his book (Il corpo preso con Filosofia), underlying ideas here -not developed by Ariemma, only indicated in his brief book, but that we have wanted to develop in our research always using the perspective of the morphoatletic body-, as the phenomenology of the limit and of the extreme in the body, the Philosophy of the exposure of the body, the extension of the body and its impact on the subject, the phenomenology of pain and suffering in bodies taken to the limit, the phenomenology of the performance of the body before the gaze of the other, the position of the body's disease in our being (advocating an ethics of disease and against the disease of ethics that sublimates the corporal form through the commodification and the capitalist pressure of our time), images and bodies and their impact on the current subject, how aesthetics is in our mass culture, full of extreme beings, such as morpho-athletes, but also monsters, vampires, zombies, etc...
We have developed a symbolic and metaphorical analysis of a certain type of athletic body: the bodybuilder, and how culture, politics and society have used that athletic form to radiate both political and other messages: aesthetic, social, cultural, of materialistic production, sexual, gender, etc. More specifically, we´d answer the following question, in line with the statements of Jean-Luc Nancy about the little interest that bodybuilding has for Philosophy: Can bodybuilding teach something to Philosophy? It is not an original question of ours (we would not have dared to directly contradict Jean-Luc Nancy), because we support ourselves for this in the same question that the Italian philosopher Tomasso Ariemma already left sketched in one of his book (Il corpo preso con Filosofia), underlying ideas here -not developed by Ariemma, only indicated in his brief book, but that we have wanted to develop in our research always using the perspective of the morphoatletic body-, as the phenomenology of the limit and of the extreme in the body, the Philosophy of the exposure of the body, the extension of the body and its impact on the subject, the phenomenology of pain and suffering in bodies taken to the limit, the phenomenology of the performance of the body before the gaze of the other, the position of the body's disease in our being (advocating an ethics of disease and against the disease of ethics that sublimates the corporal form through the commodification and the capitalist pressure of our time), images and bodies and their impact on the current subject, how aesthetics is in our mass culture, full of extreme beings, such as morpho-athletes, but also monsters, vampires, zombies, etc...
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Tesis de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía, Departamento de Filosofía y Sociedad, leída el 18/12/2018