STATEMENTS ON VEHICLES: A SPACE FOR THE ARTICULATION BETWEEN RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE AND CAPITALISM
Religious discourse, Subject-of-right, Capitalism, Historical Subject-Form.
Abstract: This research is anchored in Discourse Analysis theory, whose precursor was the philosopher and linguist M. Pêcheux in France, and in Brazil, it is disseminated by Eni Orlandi. To develop this theoretical reflection, we mobilize the theoretical and methodological devices of French Discourse Analysis, since this theory allows establishing a relationship with symbolic materiality, history, and ideology. In this direction, we take the writing on truck and car bumpers as historical materiality, discussing from the theoretical and epistemological bases of Discourse Analysis, the real of language, the real of the subject, and the real of history in the constitution of the process of subjectivation of the subject through religious discourse. Methodologically, the research adopts a qualitative perspective and has its analytical corpus composed of photographs taken within the city of Araputanga-MT, located 336 km from the capital Cuiabá, and on highways in the interior of MT. Our photographs document images of vehicles moving through urban and interurban spaces. We are interested in these spaces where different discursive formations find a place to signify and signify themselves. The city, as Orlandi (2004) says, is a place of multiplicities, multiplicities of subjects and meanings produced in a visible, perceptible space. Our corpus is part of the urban space, where vehicles signify and signify themselves. The textualized statements on the vehicles, linked to different discursive formations—religious, capitalist, political, etc.—and materializing different ideological formations, allow us to understand the articulations of language with ideology, inscribed in historical processes. In alignment with the French AD of M. Pêcheux and E. Orlandi, during the course of our analysis, we reflect on the understanding of the historical trajectory of the subject in Claudine Haroche (1983/1992) and others authors which composes our theoretical-analytical framework, this study enabled a deeper understanding of the medieval historical subject-form and the emergence of capitalism, which paves the way for the re-signification of the historical form of the subject-of-right and its effects of meaning produced in the articulation of religious discourse with capitalism.