Microfascist sensibilities

the desire captured by representations of power in media culture

Abstract

The modes of socialization of desire are a problem that concerns the Aesthetics of communication because, in the so-called post-modernity, we can not conceive the “ways of being” of desire without questioning about the potential of media and its content as mediators between different subjectivities and the legitimacy/erosion of rational effective patterns. In this context, I am particularly interested in discussing the cultural traits and media products that engender what I decided to call microfascistas sensitivities, whose sensuality is oriented by representations of totalizing and exclusionary power.