[eng] Many people fail to acknowledge the need to defy the hegemonic discourse because of their
privileged position inside of it. That is why cultural products like Sense8 (2015-2018), directed
by the Wachowski sisters, constitutes the sector of the media that inspires these people to
become competing forces. The series depicts a cluster, a group of people psychically connected.
Relevantly, the character of Wolfgang, a German mafia gangster, portrays how a person is able
to consciously dismantle behaviours that directly or indirectly contribute to the reinforcement
of damaging hegemonic discourses. This conscious process was first introduced by Jacques
Derrida as a result to post-structuralism and it was named deconstruction. Without many studies
on the series, significant works by scholars such as Raewyn Connell, Michel Foucault, Susan
Bordo, Nancy Chodorow or Nel Noddings prove relevant to depict cultural issues related to this
character’s deconstruction. To argue the relevance of Derrida’s process and how it works and
intersects with several aspects, this paper will analyse Wolfgang taking into account significant
concerns such as transnationalism, hegemonic masculinity, heteropatriarchy, white privilege,
individualism and inclusion. Therefore, this essay will aim at investigating how deconstruction
dismantles dichotomising and exclusive discourses embedded in our culture by focusing on
Wolfgang Bogdanow as the epitome of this process. The study of this character will shed some
light on the importance of portraying an empowering representation of deconstruction as a
means to achieve a more equal system.