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Abstract This paper discusses contemporary ideal of transparent body, understood as a cultural construction mediated by medical tools, media technologies, artistic conventions and social rules. Tagging to Foucault’s dispositif concept, we identificate the search of body transparency as a current cultural symptom, in which body’s perfection, control and maleability are the main goals. In this way, what we obtain by PETscanners and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enlarges the scope of virtuality, changing our conceptions of body, disease and time. Likewise, spectacular explorations of that body by different media spheres such as TV series, movies and artistic products indicate the urgency of a critical investigation of this theme considering a large cultural network, in which power and knowledge are imbricated in the produciton of new subjectivity modes. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biographies Ieda Tucherman, UFRRJ D Ericson Saint-Clair, UFRJ Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Downloads PDF (Português (Brasil)) How to Cite Tucherman, I., and E. Saint-Clair. “The Transparent Body: Dispositives of Visibility and Mutations of Sight”. Intexto, no. 19, Mar. 2009, pp. 2-17, https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/8000. More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue No. 19 (2008) Section Articles License The copyright of works published in this journal belong to the authors, and the right of first publication is conceded to the journals. Due to the journal being of open access, the articles are of free use in research, educational and non-commercial activities.

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