From the suffocating materiality to the computerized body: a spiral dance between corporality and cyborg existence based on an anthropological analysis of the movie Gattaca

Authors

  • Halina Rauber-Baio Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro. Graduate Program in Social Sciences
  • Martina Ahlert Universidade Federal do Maranhao, Sao Luis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2017.129178

Keywords:

Anthropology of body, Cinema, Cyborg, Domination informatics, Body

Abstract

It is intended, in this paper, to set up some of the possible relations between body and technology in the sci-fi movie Gattaca, from some contemporary anthropological debates about the body. Trying to make such relations and its criss-crosses clearer, we interrogate which representations and speeches on corporality are shown in Gattaca, focusing the body computerization that operates in the movie context, and associating it to the ideas of Donna Haraway and David Le Breton. As we are about to see, although at the first moment the perspectives of these authors may seem to be in opposition, their reasoning logics, in some cases, walk in parallel.

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Author Biographies

  • Halina Rauber-Baio, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro. Graduate Program in Social Sciences

    Master`s student in Social Sciences at PPCIS/ State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).

  • Martina Ahlert, Universidade Federal do Maranhao, Sao Luis

    Anthropologist and Professor at the University of Maranhão (Brazil). She received her PHD in Social Anthropology from the University of Brasília. Her work analyses issues related to political anthropology and Afro-Brazilian religions.

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Published

2017-05-29

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)

Section

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How to Cite

Rauber-Baio, Halina, and Martina Ahlert. 2017. “From the Suffocating Materiality to the Computerized Body: A Spiral Dance Between Corporality and Cyborg Existence Based on an Anthropological Analysis of the Movie Gattaca”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2017.129178.