Cinema and feminisms between poetics and becoming: by a technology generated

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the construction of a feminist poetics in the contemporary cinema and audiovisual conceived in the idea of transit or flows for subjects of gender understood outside the logic of the binarismos "cis" and heteronormativos. To that end, it updates Lauretis' (1987) sense that cinema is a technology of gender, and approaches this premise in the context of technological and digital images through the concept of feminist becoming. Such a proposed relationship encompasses the idea that feminist poetics is now increasingly based on the prerogative of the experiences of subjective characters, by a pathetic path in which cis and trans women are no longer placed under the eyes of the other man- dominator, but, on the contrary, are enunciated under references of their own daily and spaces of interlocution. In this sense, the updating of the idea of gender technology for the cinema is linked to the fact that such images constitute deterritorializations, becomings, both in relation to the hegemony-subalternity relation in the sex-gender system and in relation to the very idea of the legitimate subjects and named in feminism. As an investigative scope, I take a look at the production Dude looks Like a Lady, part of the short series on feminist pornography titled XConfessions (LUST, 2013, 125min), from text reports about fantasies and / or experiences sent through the internet. Although it deals with such a particular achievement, I also bring it as a space for activating other productions in the perspective of feminism, which endorse or enhance the place of difference in productions with a focus on the begotten subjects.