A Heterotopy in photographic discourse: the space of the ‘invade’ subject

Abstract

This paper, founded on the theories of the Discourse Analysis based on Foucault, brings up the emergence of the discourse of social inclusion, which requires rethinking the ‘invader’ subject, re-signifying it within social practices, in order to question how it is possible to understand the constructions of counter-spaces, in which this subject lives. Thus, considering the urgency of defining the position of this excluded subject, the goal was to reflect how the other space of a set of occupied buildings, called, ironically, Copacabana Palace, from the archaeogenealogical descriptive-interpretative movement, is discursivized in an enunciative series consisting of photographic images produced by Bauza (2016). In this sense, the methodological option adopted to carry out this study focused on a qualitative approach to the object of analysis. In view of this, the sensitivity of the images made it possible to rethink the enunciative conditions of emergency and (co)existence about the other space that, on the margins of society, certain subjects occupy, fleeing the architectural and manipulated geography of biopolitics. In this sense, we emphasize that the daily experiences of the ‘invader’ subjects treated here presented a set of relationships through which it is possible to define different positions in whose actions question, subvert and transgress the pre-established institutional order. Thus, the ‘invader’ subject delimits his space, positioning himself and emphasizing that his position is a counterpoint, opposing to the norm and the instituted legal, as ready and finished.