Dos prazeres narcísicos à cena voyeur: performances eróticas e enlace de corpos virtualizados no site Cam4

Abstract

In this dissertation we analyse how different gender configurations are activated to build video performances on a webcams integration site. To understand the manufacturing processes of the body-sexed on these virtual interactions, we describe a set of views coloured by a sharped erotic appeal, indicating how certain forms of collective representations emanate strategic view of the body as well as the statements of the audience that dialogues through an instant messaging system. We show that the construction of the performances is related to classification tables that ensure intelligibility to the interactions between different agents, giving rise to symbolic constructs associated with sexual preferences and identity configurations assumed by users. Such processes are analysed from a relationship between gender studies and anthropology of performance, in order to reflect on the collective representations embodied by the body in the universe's spectacular staging erotic, especially regarded to the manufacturing process of symbolic sex from the coercive action of the genre.