Desalienar o poder, viver o jogo: uma crítica situacionista ao Direito

Abstract

This thesis aims to understand how alienation operates as an apparatus that continuously produces dualities and separations necessary for the functioning of the spectacle, especially considering its political-juridical facets. From this perspective, in the first chapter, a critical-historical exposition on the genesis, characteristics, development and objectives of the situationists is made, emphasizing Guy Debord’s thoughts, who best knew how to theorize and practice a radical critique of the spectacle. For this purpose, the scenario that preceded the Situationist International is narrated from its direct antecedents, namely, Dadaism, Surrealism, Lettrism and Letterist International. It is acknowledged that Situationist International emerges at the same time as a continuation and as a radical criticism to the insufficiency of these theoretical tendencies. In this regard, it is presented the situationist program, understood as a way of thinking capable of perceiving the separation that alienate the social beings from their practices. Therefore, in the second chapter, a reading and a reconstruction of the dense concept of alienation are made, considering the view of its main authors in Modernity – Hegel, Marx and Lukács –, who are fundamental for the critique of separation and for the situationists’ thinking and act. In the third chapter, the current applicability of the situationist theory is demonstrated by the profanation of three main political-legal apparatus that alienate living beings from their own lives, that is, sovereignty, property, and representative democracy. The aim is to contribute to a radical philosophy of law and of State, demonstrating the existent possibilities for the construction of an-archic and a-nomic societies that are guided to the creation of anti-camps; in other words, the existent possibilities for the contemporary form that assumes the dimension of situation thought by Debord and his allies. Finally, the proposals of Agamben and Matos are applied, concluding that in order to live a radical democracy, it is necessary to divert the “game” of the law from its ends, by prioritizing the dimensions of situation, means and life.