Il corpo e l’immaginario politico nella società contemporanea

Thought, word, hermeneutics and imaginary - understood as a social product suspended between the spiritual/virtual and real/material dimensions - which we categorize as "performative saying", construct, influence and modify in the individual, social and therefore political sense, the life of bodies. There are different concepts of corporeity, because each society has its own performative saying, and what unites the performative saying of each society is precisely what binds it to the body, and the power of the performative saying lies in its imaginative dimension that produces real effect, effects that act on the body intended as the foundation of politics. Considering that all social, economic, legal etc. practices are deeply influenced by the imaginary and performative saying that a society has about human body, the political meaning that this concept has in itself becomes clear: the scientific performative saying, the religious performative saying or the tribal one, ecc., determine the structures and the political organization of a society, in a continuous relationship of co-construction with the imaginary. Influencing and influenced by the complex network of relationships built through performative saying, the body is now more than ever a political saying itself, expression of the imaginary and therefore it is the field of experimentation and continuous changes.