Autoria em rede: modos de produção e implicações políticas

Abstract

This is a study on how the authorship process rises, its modes of articulation, production, and communication. The main hypothesis is that of a complex process of network authorship, following social sciences literature from the last 10 years, but that such process is singularly organised in the relationship with its means of production, by relying on circumstantial political agreements. The analysis focuses on urban performance work Dança contemporânea em domicílio (Home Delivery Contemporary Dance) by Cláudia Müller, her video Fora de campo (Out of the Field of View), and on an experiment by this thesis author sem o que você não pode viver? (What can t you live without?), created in a collaborative process by drawing on the issues aroused during research for the thesis. It aims at recognizing the network as a device (Foucault s dispositif) with institutional implications, which may however be subject to profanation. Main theoretical references are the notions and concepts of sharing, of corpomídia (Christine Greiner and Helena Katz s bodymedia) and of authorship and profanation, by Giorgio Agamben. The notion of shared authorship unfolds itself into a discussion on singularity and commonness, as well as on the common being contaminated by singularity, following authors Paolo Virno, Antonio Negri, and Peter Pál Pelbart. These references guide the discussion of microcommunication (Greiner) in the analysed works and their modes of production, which construct entries and exits in and from an always unstable network, and create values out of needs. The thesis aims at widening debate on the notion of authorship, which has been centrally pervading the fields of communication, art, and political philosophy