The monstery of the beauty of the apparent, the bodies and communities of the posible: freaks and the shape of wáter, enclaves of biopolitical análisis about the world social crisis

Abstract

The following essay carries out a critical analysis of the discourses/practices of modernity from biopolitics around abnormality, science (as technoscience) and the possibilities of community that exist in the relations of the marginalized. Taking the films Freaks and The Shape of Water as references. Showing how cinema plays and proposes critical elements of these practices/discourses of modernity. Within this abnormality, monstrosity will be considered as a metaphor and as corporeal reality, and women as bordering and marginal bodies of the cast (in Rancière's terms). An analysis that plays with the contingency of the social crisis that we are going through worldwide, as well as with the social and bodily fragments, but which, nevertheless, in its entrails make possible other forms of relationships, other fabrics and possibilities of community.