Fantasmagorie politiche. Per una decostruzione delle strategie retoriche e iconografiche del populismo digitale

Fantasmagorie politiche. Per una decostruzione delle strategie retoriche e iconografiche del populismo digitale

This essay explores the relationship between imaginary and politics, in particular how the legitimization of power, especially in the case of the new populist parties, is entangled with authentically aesthetic procedures. This analysis relies on the prophetic power of W. Benjamin's thought, whi...

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Main Author: Antonella D’Autilia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2020-02-01
Series:Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary
Online Access:http://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/IMAGO/article/view/2396
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spelling doaj-5934cc8c1f6241d7a0b4347973ba617f2020-11-25T03:08:48ZengMimesis Edizioni, MilanoIm@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary2281-81382281-81382020-02-0101469861907Fantasmagorie politiche. Per una decostruzione delle strategie retoriche e iconografiche del populismo digitaleAntonella D’Autilia0<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span>Dipartimento FORPSICOM | Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div>This essay explores the relationship between imaginary and politics, in particular how the legitimization of power, especially in the case of the new populist parties, is entangled with authentically aesthetic procedures. This analysis relies on the prophetic power of W. Benjamin's thought, which finds a renewed interest thanks to the ontological reality of the present, where the crisis of istitutions overlaps in the progressive expansion of the political sphere on digital media as as machine creating consensus. Through an imagined dialogue between the Frankfurt scholars and theorists of the imaginary, the essay aims to show how postmodernity is more than ever a world of phantasmagoria and contemporary subjectivity, starting from this proposition, possesses the tools to achieve the freedom Benjamin dreamed of.http://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/IMAGO/article/view/2396
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Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary
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title Fantasmagorie politiche. Per una decostruzione delle strategie retoriche e iconografiche del populismo digitale
title_short Fantasmagorie politiche. Per una decostruzione delle strategie retoriche e iconografiche del populismo digitale
title_full Fantasmagorie politiche. Per una decostruzione delle strategie retoriche e iconografiche del populismo digitale
title_fullStr Fantasmagorie politiche. Per una decostruzione delle strategie retoriche e iconografiche del populismo digitale
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title_sort fantasmagorie politiche. per una decostruzione delle strategie retoriche e iconografiche del populismo digitale
publisher Mimesis Edizioni, Milano
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publishDate 2020-02-01
description This essay explores the relationship between imaginary and politics, in particular how the legitimization of power, especially in the case of the new populist parties, is entangled with authentically aesthetic procedures. This analysis relies on the prophetic power of W. Benjamin's thought, which finds a renewed interest thanks to the ontological reality of the present, where the crisis of istitutions overlaps in the progressive expansion of the political sphere on digital media as as machine creating consensus. Through an imagined dialogue between the Frankfurt scholars and theorists of the imaginary, the essay aims to show how postmodernity is more than ever a world of phantasmagoria and contemporary subjectivity, starting from this proposition, possesses the tools to achieve the freedom Benjamin dreamed of.
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