TY - JOUR
T1 - El “miedo” de las Ciencias Sociales Hacia una propuesta epistemo-política de intensificación afectiva1
AU - Flores, Pedro Eduardo Moscoso
AU - Donoso, Patricio Azócar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - The present text constitutes a critical proposal regarding a question focused on the categories with which Social Sciences have developed models of analysis around phenomena linked to fear in contemporary global contexts. We propose that these models of approach work as technologies that tend to reduce the affective powers of thought linked to the emergence of events that appear as inexplicable and unclassifiable, transforming fear into an epistemopolitical operation that, paradoxically, produces a harmonizing and articulating effect of those manifestations that escape outside the scope of objective explanatory criteria that fear supposes as an ordering axis of the multiplicity of forms and manifestations related to social life. In this sense we seek to describe how the treatment of the node “terror-fear-violence” allows to glimpse the emergence of a Policy of fear linked to the founding principles of contemporary neoliberal democracies, demanding from this elucidation the opening of an ethical-political question referring to the methodological conditions with which phenomena linked to terror has been progressively outlining a social economy of fear, thus opening a reflection that allows the understanding horror experiences in contemporary contexts from a perspective based on aesthetic-political keys of investigation.
AB - The present text constitutes a critical proposal regarding a question focused on the categories with which Social Sciences have developed models of analysis around phenomena linked to fear in contemporary global contexts. We propose that these models of approach work as technologies that tend to reduce the affective powers of thought linked to the emergence of events that appear as inexplicable and unclassifiable, transforming fear into an epistemopolitical operation that, paradoxically, produces a harmonizing and articulating effect of those manifestations that escape outside the scope of objective explanatory criteria that fear supposes as an ordering axis of the multiplicity of forms and manifestations related to social life. In this sense we seek to describe how the treatment of the node “terror-fear-violence” allows to glimpse the emergence of a Policy of fear linked to the founding principles of contemporary neoliberal democracies, demanding from this elucidation the opening of an ethical-political question referring to the methodological conditions with which phenomena linked to terror has been progressively outlining a social economy of fear, thus opening a reflection that allows the understanding horror experiences in contemporary contexts from a perspective based on aesthetic-political keys of investigation.
KW - Affective intensifications
KW - Fear policies
KW - Horror images
KW - Terror
KW - Violence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067664856&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2019.236.65839
DO - 10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2019.236.65839
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067664856
SN - 0185-1918
VL - 64
SP - 383
EP - 404
JO - Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales
JF - Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales
IS - 236
ER -