Hate: “An Unequaled Power”: Representation of Political Evil in Aprender a Rezar na Era da Técnica
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.1.109-125Keywords:
evil, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Aprender a rezar na era da técnica, state violence, biopoliticsAbstract
The fiction of resistance, based on the trauma experience and in the perception of the primacy of evil as political práxis remains current and universal. The books of the series “O reino”, written by Gonçalo M. Tavares, show the timelessness of these problem with their somewhat dystopic plots, in an indefinite space-time that purposefully evoke the experiences of the period of totalitarianisms in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. In the analysis of Aprender a rezar na era da técnica, we propose to observe some nuances and details of this occurrence, bringing it closer to the concepts of state violence, by Walter Benjamin, and “biopolitics”, by Giorgio Agamben.
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