Liquid bodies: New socio-mediological definitions body through the contemporary cinema and television series

Abstract

The objective of this work is to demonstrate how, in the mediological imaginary of today's western society, the body becomes a liquid object, an entity that defies time and space and becomes relativized in them, translating it into an unpublished expression of itself. Bodies that get lost between space-time folds, as for exemple, Interstellar movie, or that revert near futures (Tenet), or, finally, absorbed by technology and trapped in distorted realities (Black Mirror and The Handmaid's Tale). We will analyze these fascinating anomalies thanks to three different narrative and theoretical ways of understanding such alterations: utopia, dystopia and entropy. We will also see how what we thought abandoned adrift of time, like mythology, returns, in the new media, facilitating new and captivating figures of bodies. An evolutionary journey of a pluralism of bodies that from ancient times reaches today, never ceasing to surprise.