Dissimulacrum-ressimulation: opportunities of the culture of hate in the post-truth brazilian age

Abstract

This work aims to carry out an accurate reflection on the post-truth cultural phenomenon, under the bias of Brazilian interlocutors. The neologisms of dissimulacrum and resimulation are an authorial attempt to give another symbolic connotation to this phenomenon, which could be named and signified by other historical or contemporary designations, which conceive its elements as something that has always existed in the field of political and ideological manipulation, since man contests power, through several tricks, conchavos, alliances, whose goals indicate several ways of maintaining or shedding authority over the exercise of power. In the context of this discussion, some contradictory conceptual aspects of post-truth are raised, some presuppositions of what is dissimulacrum and ressimulation, post-truth as an auratic manufacture of signs, the phenomenology of false news with its Machiavellian goals, hatred in social networks, the myth of dissolution and insolvency of the other in the field of tension between the recognition and non-recognition of radical alterity, post-truth as the ideology of apathetic reason in the context of social networks, and the symbolic reconstruction of the sign of human relationship in contemporary times. For the deepening of questions, the following authors are employed as theoretical framework: Cremilda Medina, Maria Teresa Cruz, Luiz Carlos Restrepo, Gabriel Priollo, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Carlos Skliar, Peter Sloterdijk, among others. The purpose of the choice of such authors is to inventory ideas, values, concepts and visions, which at the same time helps us to understand the communicational phenomenon of propagation of “false truths”, and point out some attitudes of confrontation in relation to this deeply problematic issue.