O EXCESSO DE POSITIVIDADE, A CULTURA DO CANCELAMENTO E AS NOVAS FORMAS DE VIGILÂNCIA SOCIAL

Abstract

The present planning work is a theoretical-analytical reflection on the intertwining of the notion of performance society, elaborated by Han (2015 and the culture of cancellation). The performance society is characterized by the tyranny of positivity, that is, it legitimizes the logic that the subject must be increasingly agile, worth anything to overcome and achieve lower performance. In this sense, social networks help in engendering ideas of subjectivities for some form of exhibition, taking into account the phenomenon of cancellation of those whose productions or conduct are condemnable for reason. On the one hand, this provokes the debate of subjects such as machismo, racism and homophobia. On the other hand, a standard of perfection and congruence is increasingly demanded, being unacceptable as failures, mistakes and errors. From this scenario, a climate of social surveillance is created that, in the future, brings consequences such as exhaustion, fatigue and vision in the face of the notion of failure once and for all.