Saturaciones identitarias: de excesos, materialidades, significación y sus (in)visibilidades

Abstract

In this article we address the issue of subjetivities of conformation through the notion of «identity saturations», which makes the multiplication of invisibilised marks of normativity visible. This takes us to distinguish, following partially María Lugones (1999), between saturation by transparency and saturation by opacity. We propose a way of thinking the complexity in the constitution of subjectivities, in its semiotic-material conformation. Saturation would constitute a tool to address the multiplication and articulations of differences in subjectivity production moving beyond images of juxtapositions of previously stabilised axis of gender, race, sexuality or class, as well as an instrument to move us away from images that aim to synthesise those exclusions or to build up analogies between them.