Pornocracia no Brasil: uma economia política da comunicação obscena e a pornografia da morte

Abstract

The growing indistinction between private and public life on the internet practices has produced a communicational phenomenon that deserves attention and it is the question from which this dissertation starts: the naturalization of certain modes of use and transaction of bodies that now proliferates on many platforms produces “De-eroticized”, obscenizing and pornographic processes of subjectification, which started to regulate communication in its various forms of manifestation. It is worth clarifying that it is not only about expanding the consumption of pornography on the Internet nor about the use of relationship apps and social networks for sexual interaction, but a type of enormously impactful communication and scope, even without the visibility that it needs to have. Dufour (2013) talks about “political-pornological and economic-pornocratic relations” that do not scandalize or mobilize attention, although they regulate politics and the economy, which is the way we live. We can recognize them in the set of information published in the media, such as: the spectacularization of the turning state’s evidence cases, the testimonies in judicial processes, the supposedly secret information of the judicial system (such as the leaks of audio and video recordings in the press), or the transformation of our subjectivity into profiles for sale by data mining companies. Ejaculatory speeches are not restricted to social networks and they seem to infect the way the communication field and journalism behave today in Brazil. The hypothesis is that there is a new logical organization in the cognitive habits produced in the daily hours invested in online life, which ended up promoting a subjection that could be called pornographic communication, given its affinity with a kind of informational obscenity that brings to the scene what was retained in the backstage. To support it, the research will be based mainly on the spectacle concept (DEBORD, 1967, 1997), biopolitics (Foucault, 2005), on the pornography and liberalism concepts (Dufour, 2013), on the Corpusmedia Theory (Katz and Greiner, 2005) and the theatrocracy concept (Han, 2012). The objective is to bring to the stage front the reflection about the consequences of the spectacularization of information (Débord, 1967, 1997), identifying these practices in our daily communication. The methodology will make use of a bibliographic review and the organization of a database taken from journalistic articles from several press vehicles, as well as from the media production in which we recognize political-pornological relations, covering the electoral period of 2018, until 2021 in Brazil. We will also use mediatized phenomena on news sites and blogs, on social networks such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and WhatsApp, among other platforms. The exposure of intimate life through network communication seems to have given life to Pornocracy (Dufour, 2013), which needs to be investigated in order to make a more accurate diagnosis of this phenomenon that now regulates communication