A gentrificação do queer na territorialidade digital: dispositivos tecnopolíticos no aplicativo Grindr
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2021-08-19
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Mozer, Thiago Scarpat
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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In the last century, gentrification is a process of urban requalification that affects neighborhoods, cities and/or regions in order to change the composition of the place, especially with new real estate developments and commercial outlets, so that previously popular areas become noble. However, epistemological changes have interested us in studying less the physicality of this phenomenon and more its symbolic effects and strategies of exclusion. With this in mind, the object of this research is Grindr, a dating app for gay, bisexual and transgender people, in order to think about how the notion of gentrification performs in cyberspace. To this end, this research proposes the notion of queer gentrification, a diagram that makes use of technopolitical devices that endorse practices of territorial surveillance in order to gentrify the sociabilities and dissident subjects of the digital environment of that app. As such, it is based on a theoretical framework that draws on authors such as José Silvério Trevisan and Paul B. Preciado to think about the notion of queer; Eve Sedgwick, to understand the epistemology of the closet; Foucault and Deleuze to elaborate the notions of surveillance, control, diagram and device; Fernanda Bruno and David Lyon to discuss technopolitics; Benjamin Loveluck to think about cyberspace; Marie Chabrol and Sarah Schulman to explain gentrification; and Haesbaert and Raffestin to discuss the territory-territoriality binomial. Therefore, this qualitative research uses genealogy as a methodology, whose corpus of analysis is mainly made up of screenshots of Grindr user profiles. From the analyses carried out, it can be concluded that gentrification, when it enters digital territoriality, acts as a regime of exclusion and oppression whose devices are intertwined and form a diagram that controls users; that the gentrification of queer displaces the dissident experience by an asymmetrical volume of surveillance that normalizes queer brands in this app; and that the interaction of technopolitical devices causes compulsive invisibility, remaking of subjectivities, negotiation of privacy and reprogramming of a certain mode of intimacy.
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Gentrificação do queer , territorialidade digital , tecnopolítica , vigilância , Grindr