Cultural Discourses and Symbolic Violence 3502-JIS-19
Our analysis will be focused on therapeutic and religious discourses, as well as popular culture, including guidebooks, TV series and advertising content. The following topics will be discussed: indivisualism, privatization of social problems, re-definition of the social, and social inequalities. Symbolic violence is often identified with “soft” manifestations of violence. Some contemporary phenomena related to such forms of violence, like language and visual message, will be discussed.
The above-mentioned discourses make it possible for the individuals to rationally control their lives, as well as minimising uncertainty and chaos (P. Bourdieu, M. Foucault, E. Illouz, J.-C. Kaufmann, A. Mbembe, M. Seltzer). These circumstances foster new forms of symbolic violence which operates by identifying the individual’s autonomy and happiness as his or her own responsibility. The privatization of social problems, the blurred private versus public dichotomy, the economization of the common language, panpsychologism, traumatophilia and biopolitics are the main concepts that will help to reveal symbolic violence in late capitalism.
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Discussion, research report on symbolic violence in media, report prepared in small research team
Bibliography
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