Transgressão fashion: rebeldia improfanável em Capricho

Abstract

This research attempts to understand the thematization of rebellion, taking as reference the discourses (verbal and visual) presented in Capricho magazine. The hypothesis adopted here is that this rebellion, paradoxically converted into a marketing argument, is apparent. The magazine writer produces a figure of rebellion, adding passionate elements to the narrative program with which the reader identifies. To carry out this analysis, we establish as the corpus the magazine Capricho published in 1984, 1992, 2002 and 2008. Our objective is to analyze the political events of a contestatory nature that marked these years, which were in some way thematized in the magazine, and how they were incorporated into its verbal and visual discourse in the form of arguments for consumption. We investigate this question in two methodological moments, or steps. The first step of the research consists of analyzing the visual and verbal narratives of the magazine, examining the elements that constitute the symbolic construction of rebellion proposed by the periodical, based on a discourse analysis aimed at understanding how such figurativization is built within the social marketing framework and interestedly inserted into the communication contract, as expounded by Charaudeau (2006). In the second step, in light of the discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau (1996, 2002), we will evaluate the construction of the meaning of rebellion within an ideological totalizing discourse that justifies marketing practices. Starting from the theoretical reflections of Bauman (1998, 2001, 2007, 2008), Baudrillard (1991, 2005), Debord (1998) and Fontenelle (2004, 2009), we will discuss the figure of rebellion thematized in this publication as appearance