Um estudo panorâmico sobre o flâneur confinado

Abstract

This article discusses the hypothesis of the confined flâneur as an interpretive key to the condition of the artist in late capitalism. The text begins with the image of the condemnation of the Benjaminian flâneur, already inscribed by Edgar Allan Poe in 1840, in the short story “The man of the crowd”, when the social type was still at its height. It argues that the flâneur did not disappear, but was refracted into a post-flâneur: expelled from the street, he internalizes wandering, producing images of the city he has lost. The analysis traces the trajectory of the flâneur in Walter Benjamin (from sovereignty in the arcades to capture as sandwich-man) and demonstrates how the agonistic phase prepares contemporary confinement. The article concludes that the confined flâneur, fractured between adherence and resistance, constitutes a productive oxymoron: even immobilized and exploited, he still produces critical and poetic images.