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.