Digital Body / Mutant Body: Identity, Desire, and Resistance in the Algorithmic Age

Abstract

The following text explores the transformations of the contemporary body in the digital environment, understood not only as a biological support, but also as a political, technological, and performative interface in queer community configurations. Based on a theoretical and practical approach informed by the work of Judith Butler, Paul B. Preciado, Jack Halberstam, and Gilles Deleuze, it analyzes how social media, algorithms, and technologies of digital recording and representation shape bodily expression, the construction of desire, and the semantic forms of the body. It therefore proposes an analysis of the digital body as a symbolic battlefield where new forms of identity, eroticism, and resistance are negotiated. Through the analysis of contemporary discourses and through proposals for artistic creation, it defends the possibility of imagining mutant bodies that escape algorithmic homogenization and open spaces for queerness.