Pânico moral e as apropriações do obsceno como gestão dos afetos políticos pela extrema-direita

Abstract

This dissertation investigates recent midiatic scandals in brazilian politics in order to map the appropriations of the obscene. The analyzed phenomena exemplifies some of the many uses of images and discourse that aims to affect and politically mobilize its spectators under the sign of a threat to the traditional and conservative moral standards of its society. Such a way of engagement shows itself to be decisive in the consolidation of bolsonarism as a movement that reincidentaly fabricates moral panics by way of putting the obscene on scene. But the strategic use of the obscene is part of a much broader national political atmosphere, be it in the anticorruption discourse, that makes use of obscene bodies and situations as a tool to propel its logic, or be it in its use subjetivation instrument by LGBTQIA+ artists and queer collectives. Such a complex paradigm exposes the need to think a pragmatic of the image that, moving beyond a philosophy that aims to find a essence to the obscene, the pornographic and many other adjectives used toward images and discourse – many times, in derogatory ways –, maps the midiatic phenomena in which the occur and gain their socially constructed meanings. This dissertations aims to make immanent analyses, study the appropriations of its objects of interest in the World Wide Web, and finally to draw historical parallels to understand how else was obscenity used as a collective political tool.