Abstract

GALAK, Eduardo Lautaro; GOMES, Ivan Marcelo  and  ZOBOLI, Fabio. About projects of science and mass production: corporal education, biopolitics and eugenesia in Wakolda. Acta Educ. [online]. 2018, vol.40, n.4, e40985. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v40i4.40985.

The film Wakolda (2013), directed by the Argentinean filmmaker Lucía Puenzo, borrows its name to a doll, which represents the passage of the singularity to a projected body, manufactured and assembled for a production in series, serving as a metaphor for the dream/nightmare of the modern science of creating perfect bodies through the improvement of the human race. The film narrative of Puenzo is a mixture of fictional and historical biography about the life in Argentina as a refugee of the German Nazi doctor Josef Menguele. Wakolda represents the tension between difference and homogenization of the bodies when proposing the manufacture, through the genetic pairing, of an improved race. The aim of the text is to analyze the biopolitics and the education of bodies based on eugenic medical knowledge, starting from the assumption that it shows a body subjected to a technocracy of scientific knowledge.

Keywords : body; biopolitics eugenics; film Wakolda.

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