Receipt of works in the form of papers, essays, reviews, interviews, literary texts, images and other formats that reflect on the theme, until October 31, 2023.

We are constantly confronted with increasingly advanced and refined techniques of power, which constitute a complex regimen of control and exploitation of the vital power of bodies and subjectivities. According to Preciado, this biopolitical regime, called pharmacopornographic, uses “sex, sexuality and sexual identity as the somato-political centeres for producing and governing subjectivity”. Bodies are invaded by techno-political apparatuses that act molecularly to change their constitution, seeking to adapt them to the demands of capital. In this context, we live in the era of hyperartificiality and plasticity of bodies, in which the ontological-political limits of identities can be flexibly managed and consumed.

However, given this evident plasticity, we are faced with bodies that escape this regime of exploitation. Bodies that experiment with new ways of utilizing somato-political techniques and social biocodes to produce material effects that do not fit the designs of dominant power. In this issue of (Des)troços, we call for submissions that reflect on these corporealities and subjectivities that challenge their own containment, rebelling against the logic of being mere objects of the technologies of power. We encourage intersectional approaches that consider the complex interactions between gender, sexuality, race, class, and other social dimensions in the struggle for recognition and emancipation of these bodies. Reflections that dialogue with authors such as Judith Butler, Paul Preciado, Gloria Anzaldúa, Eve Sedgwick, Audre Lorde, Monique Wittig, Teresa de Lauretis, José Esteban Muñoz, Michel Foucault, among others. We must activate these vibrant bodies, full and alive in their intensities: queer bodies.

We also emphasize that, in addition to this thematic dossier, the journal (Des)troços accepts pitches in a continuous flow of a general nature that are linked to radical thinking and the editorial line of the journal, as described at: https://destrocosrevista.wordpress.com/sobre-a-revista/. Contributions must be sent through the OJS system, respecting the submission rules for texts (https://destrocosrevista.wordpress.com/submissoes-submissions/) by October 31, 2023. Title requirements do not apply to image authors, whose contributions will be evaluated solely by the editorial committee. Contributions in the form of texts will be evaluated by the editorial committee and by the double-blind review system. Once approved, texts and images will be published in the seventh issue of the journal, scheduled to be released in the second half of 2023.