As vicissitudes das imagens no reconhecimento das metamorfoses: tessituras críticas

Abstract

In the present Article, we make considerations concerning the variations that involve the uses of images in contemporarity and their relations with a construction of human identity, as a constant metamorphosis. We aim to discuss how performative peculiarities of information exposure by conditions provided by current virtual technologies. It is an undertaking of theoretical discussion with contemporary intellectuals of the fields of knowledge of critical social psychology, social communication and sociology. At first, we place the role of contemporary technologies and the current phenomenon of intimacy exposure. We analise the performatic effects in the publicization of life by the imagetic circuits. We discuss, further, about the interests’ games involved in the construction of perspectives of visibility and recognition of identity, privileging the conditions for their metamorphoses. Finally, we bring the debate concerning the critical feasibility of the imagetic use in Identity investigations, while analyzing self-portraits.