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0043/2026 - The (non) place of the subject in the grammar of consumption impliced to Dietetics and Corporality
O (não) lugar do sujeito na gramática do consumo implicada à Dietética e à Corporeidade

Author:

• Marcos Aurélio Macedo - Macedo, MA - <marcos_macedo@uvanet.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3134-3754


Abstract:

The article brings critical-understanding notes around the rational dietary discourse, structured in biopolitical devices, which understand the body as an object subject to moral normative control. It starts from the notion of the anthropological non-place, where the subject does not recognize himself as implicated, nor does he establish a relational or historical link, with their individuality being replaced by the anonymity of a mere consumer. By problematizing the self-awareness of the healthy as an identity precept, the displacement and reification of the subject, affected within the (desubjectifying) spaces related to purchase and sale, are explored. The text proposes a critical foundation for an Engaged Dietetics – re-elaborated based on the “self-care” ethics of the Greco-Roman tradition – in the political-existential perspective of human self-determination. To this end, it articulates cultural heritage (tradition), phenomenology of body consciousness and aesthetic revaluation of the act of eating as a sensitive and pleasurable experience. Finally, focusing on praxis in Physical Education and Nutrition, it reflects on the relevance of Critical Theory for a qualitative approach to the body in Public Health. Thus, pedagogical and political counter-devices capable of reconfiguring corporality as an axis of freedom, transcendence and action in the world.

Keywords:

Dietetics; corporality; Science; Health; Society.

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The (non) place of the subject in the grammar of consumption impliced to Dietetics and Corporality


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Macedo, MA. The (non) place of the subject in the grammar of consumption impliced to Dietetics and Corporality. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2026/Mar). [Citado em 29/04/2026]. Está disponível em: http://www.cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-non-place-of-the-subject-in-the-grammar-of-consumption-impliced-to-dietetics-and-corporality/19941?id=19941&id=19941



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