The discourse as a form of existence/resistance

from literature to the 2018 street manifestations

Abstract

This text aims at analyzing relations of power, resistance and constitution of subjects in contemporaneity. In order to achieve the proposed objective, were analyzed some utterances of José Saramago’s novel, and other selected from posters of Brazilian social movements at the end of 2018 (second semester). The reflections will be theoretically based on French Discourse Analysis, studies of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. The conclusion is that the functioning of a discourse is conflicting, as mentioned by Foucault throughout his research. To exist/resist in such discourses is constant and based on a movement that we cannot foresee forms and results, it will always be a devir (become). However, we must always resist power, since it is the only way to exist as historically constituted subjects.