La cuestión del cuerpo en el campo de la comunicación. Pensando aportes y desafíos a partir del caso del Área Cuerpo y Comunicación de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

In recent years, interest in the question of the body has been reinforced in the field of communication. The massification of feminisms and the aesthetic-sensitive transformations of the last decade have deepened epistemological displacements that tend to give greater relevance to the problem of corporality and communication between bodies. The valorization of the intersection "body and communication" is expressed in the opening of institutional spaces, in the choice of objects of study in undergraduate and graduate thesis, and in curricular developments. However, the recording and thematization of progress in this regard is still incipient. The objective of this text is to analyze the contributions of the “body and communication” intersection to the field of communication, focusing on the approach to activities and themes developed in a specific institutional space: the Research Area Body and Communication. Aesthetic-political problems in the production of subjectivity, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Following this objective, the writing begins by reviewing feminist displacements and struggles of the last decades that have resulted in the valorization of corporality. Secondly, it outlines the creation and progress of the referred research area and the degree seminars linked to it. Third, it synthesizes the lines of work deployed in the area, thus outlining the contributions of the "body and communication" intersection to the field of communication. Finally, it reflects on the growth of the subject of the body and displacements in recent years, concluding that among the main challenges in the field is that of generating curricular openings that allow integrating the referred contributions. The work is framed in a qualitative methodology with an autoethnographic approach and is based on the recovery of techniques of "observant participation", personal records and analysis of institutional documents.