Banca de DEFESA: EVANILSON GURGEL DE CARVALHO FILHO

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : EVANILSON GURGEL DE CARVALHO FILHO
DATE: 01/04/2022
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Remoto, via RNP
TITLE:

Can a curriculum shed blood? In the bowels of a zombie subjectivity.

KEY WORDS:

Curriculum. Serial media narratives. Subjectivity.

PAGES: 205
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

This thesis has as object the curriculum of serial media narratives, meaning it as an
artifact involved in the “pedagogy of existences” and in the delimitation of lives as
“livable” and as “killable”. Based on post-critical theories of education, this study
aimed to investigate the images of horror and death in contemporary serial media
narratives. Recognizing in the markers of gender, sexuality, and race some lines for
the constitution of a “whirlpool of lives”, the central question that guides the
research and that entitles this thesis is: “can a curriculum pour blood?”. The thesis
defended here is that the curriculum of serial media narratives contributes to a
permanent production of intensity differential of deserving death. The research fits
into the framework of curriculum studies that, inspired by the work of Cultural
Studies and philosophies of difference, the discourses and constitutive lines of this
artifact were examined in their availability of subject positions and modes of
subjectivation. The analysis of this material focused on an articulation of different
post-critical methodological orientations, producing a “methodology-zapping”
based especially on the discursive analysis by Michel Foucault and on the
cartography by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The thesis shows that by updating
the lines of a “catastrophization device”, the curriculum of serial media narratives
has demanded ways of life in precarious registers, converging to the production of
a “zombie subjectivity”. “Zombie subjectivity” refers to the subject's way of relating
to himself, in the enjoyment of various subject positions made available by this
curriculum, in a modeled, serialized, programmed composition. The analysis
presented here evidenced that, in this curriculum, there is a hybridization of
"regions of control" - spaces whose function is to capture, control, dominate, hide
and annihilate the difference - and the "escape zones" - assemblages that forge
fissures in the hierarchical models, allowing that the audience of serial media
narratives can fable other modes of existence. In its regions of control, this
curriculum has a double action. On the hand, it is involved in a normalizing policy of
disguising expressions of gender and sexuality through a “technology of
concealment” that is the product and producer of a grammar of violence. On the
other hand, it triggers a “technology of apoptosis” in the face of markers of
difference, creating and articulating meanings that seek to justify the possibility of
purging what it considers unwanted through an “apocalyptic pedagogy” related to
the practices of programming death. Although this curriculum triggers necropolitics
that aims to eliminate the infamous and obscene, it will face resistance as inventive,
cunning, and agitating as the power it wields. Therefore, this artifact activates the
creative escape zones in this normalizing space and inaugurates smaller existences,
contributing to the production of a “minor-curriculum” that articulates love and
laughter as vectors of disaggregation of the investments of concealment and
extermination. Consequently, the curriculum of serial media narratives is an artifact
coextensive with our existences, capable of shedding blood but also overflowing life.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 630.606.043-04 - MARLECIO MAKNAMARA DA SILVA CUNHA - UFAL
Interno - 1745317 - JONEI CERQUEIRA BARBOSA
Externo à Instituição - JOSÉ PAULO GOMES BRAZÃO (UNIVERSIDADE DA MADEIRA)
Externo à Instituição - ALEXANDRE FILORDI DE CARVALHO - UFLA
Externa à Instituição - MARLUCY ALVES PARAÍSO - UFMG
Externa à Instituição - SILVIA NOGUEIRA CHAVES - UFPA