Opposition discourse as political training

Empathy with the discourse of political opposition is not a condition of the will, as one might think, but rather the necessary result of a complex web of devices and circumstances that complexify the political subject.Power, the body and discourse are the key elements that underlie the mechanics of political opposition in an attempt to train the naïve and uncritical subject necessary to swell a contradictory, belligerent collective in perpetuity. A power that occurs insofar as it is granted and perceived by the other in a reciprocal and divergent relationship. A body that is embodied as a consequence of a social scaffolding in constant mutability, but in accordance with the reality that gives rise to it. An intentional and sophistic discourse in search of the conformation of a homogenised social mass that assimilates this rhetoric as a paradigm. A whole permanent dynamic of instruction so that the common citizen, naïve and without a dialectical approach to everyday life, ends up becoming a staunch, violent and belligerent opponent who, in turn, strengthens a polarised, rivalrous and constantly socially threatening mode of nationhood.

Autorentext

Frank Mejía Guzmán é um filósofo da Universidade de Antioquia e está a tirar um mestrado em Estudos Políticos na Universidade Nacional. Os seus artigos: o corpo humano como discurso do poder e o discurso político da oposição como elemento de formação política foram escritos preparatórios fundamentais para este livro.