The body in the urban space: between discipline, punish and signify

Abstract

The body, as discursive object is a significant materiality, in which return and resound memories and discourses, introducing identifying processes. In this way, we think how the body, in the urban space, has been represented and understood as textuality. We do this by two points of view: by Foucault and by Pêcheux, emphasizing that the discourse is the meeting point between both. On one hand, we attempt for a disciplined and punished body and for a coercive society that authorizes, by itself, the justice; and on the other hand, for the ideology that naturalizes the discipline and punish, and the memories that means discursive practices around of to ‘make’ justice, judge and condemn. Thereunto, we take a part of Veja magazine cover (February, 2014), in view of the disciplined and punished body and the body that means by memory and ideology in a society that represents itself as righteous, but not always just.