Afropunk en Instagram de la mano de José Esteban Muñoz: de la “desidentificación” al “sentimiento y la sensación de lo común marrón”

Afropunk on Instagram via José Esteban Muñoz: from “Disidentification” to “Sensing the Brown Commons”

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Danae Gallo González

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Este artículo versa sobre el uso político que la comunidad imaginada afrodiaspórica digital y transnacional Afropunk le da a la estética en Instagram a partir de las teorías de José Esteban Muñoz y desde una comprensión de los medios de comunicación como práctica (Couldry). Afropunk es un término fluido que abarca a todas las personas dentro de un gran espectro de la experiencia negra que se sienten interpeladas por la frase con la que se define la comunidad, como “la otra experiencia negra”, y que, por tanto, se consideran no normativas por cualquier eje de discriminación respecto de la heteronormatividad blanca y negra. Instagram es una red social popular que se caracteriza por centrarse en la difusión de imágenes altamente estéticas. Se presenta así una meta-reflexión conceptual sobre el uso que Afropunk hace de Instagram fundamentada en una selección de entradas de 2020 y 2021. Se argumenta que, para esta comunidad distintiva dentro de la afrodiáspora, la estética funciona como una manera de articular las políticas de “desidentificación” (Muñoz, Disidentifications) y del sentir el “común marrón” (Muñoz, Cruising Utopia), que abre vías alternativas con las que hacer frente a la sociedad mayorizada y con las que se puede formar una comunidad sin recurrir a paradigmas teóricos basados en la identidad.

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Danae Gallo González, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen

Doctora en literaturas y culturas románicas. Profesora asistente en el Instituto de Romanística de la Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. 

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