ON PSYCHOPOLITICAL CONTEMPORARY VIOLENCE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE AFFECTIVE DIMENSIONS

Abstract

This article seeks to explain the conditions of possibility of psychopolitical violence in contemporary times. Such is a type of violence practiced in psychic levels when people demand from themselves high performance and optimal results, leading to the undermining of subjectivity and to its nihilistic burnout. Our purpose is to inquire for the affective dimension generated by the violences imposed on others and on the self. Therefore, this theoretical study will develop two settings of issues: firstly, the show-and-hide game and the ratting actualized in social media. Next, our study will analyze the sad effects originated by a capitalist socioeconomical organization indifferent to the importance of social relationships, affections and to the relationship with nature. Through a predatory attitude towards the self and the others, capitalist subjectivity continues to judge and evaluate, even though such practices became violent and destructive. What are the possibilities to shut down this movement, largely grounded on communication technologies? As a partial result, we stress the challenge of inventing new values able to expand life in spite of the boundaries diffused by mere communicational assessments grounded on narcissism.