From the Banality of Hate: The Mirror of Darkness

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Abstract

Presenting this paper, I intend to share some reflections about the banalization of hate that flows in the neoliberal global and conservative tsunami. Current context challenges us to discuss hatred as a social practice of anticohesion that navigates in a context I describe as a conservative global neoliberal tsunami (Sussekind, 2018; Oliveira, Sussekind, 2018a; 2018b) arguing that the tsunami feeds on hatred, a deep antipathy, the desire for annihilation of the other and the erasing of difference, nourishing itself with individual and social attitudes and feelings that fit the notion of banalization of evil (Arendt, 1999). This presentation works on the ruins of two episodes of the Black Mirror series, where "old renovated stones become places of transit between the ghosts of the past and the imperatives of the present" (Certeau, Giard, Mayol, 1996, p.194) of hatred reflected in the mirrors in which we project ourselves and question a curriculum of hate. Therefore, Arendt's theories about the relationship between citizenship and the banalization of evil, and sustaining the defense that the struggle for democracy requires the appreciation of difference in relation to each other, I discuss episodes of the Black Mirror series intertwined with our everyday life studies within the curriculum as a complicated conversation that happened at universities classrooms to help us understand more about the widespread authorization of hatreds, prejudices, persecutions especially declared to teachers, principals and researchers in this mirror (Süssekind , Prestes, 2017) in which we see ourselves as society, drawn and split by abyssal lines (Santos, 2007). A mirror of darkness.

Author

• Maria Luiza Süssekind, federal university of rio de janeiro state unirio