Abstract

MINERBO, Marion. Reality game: contemporary violence and denaturation of language. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2007, vol.30, n.44, pp. 103-107. ISSN 0101-3106.

The author relates contemporary violence and the denaturation of language, taking as a starting point the movie Orange clock, by Kubrick. The film shows a ludic violence, made possible because of the fragility of symbol. The acts of violence in this movie are at one and the same time, representation (play), and the thing itself (real). The movies also allow us to understand what happens when the symbolic tie that maintains together a signifier and a signification is broken. The signifier is still there, but empty of meaning, or with a new meaning ascribed to it. The consequence is a change in our sensibility, and this is a necessary condition for a certain kind of contemporary violence.

Keywords : Denaturation of language; Symbolic misery; Reality game; Contemporary violence.

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