Abstract

CARVALHAES, Flávia Fernandes de; SILVA, Rafael Bianchi  and  LIMA, Alexandre Bonetti. Banality of Evil in Contemporaneity and the Necropolitical Effects on Brazilian Society. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.3, pp. 1-11. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v20i3.e10750.

The brazilian society is crossed by violence, prejudice and authoritarianism, materialized in death rates and social inequalities that resemble a country at war. The main targets of these indexes, invariably, are the so-called social minorities formed by LGBTI (particularly transsexual), poor, indigenous, black, women, among others. At the same time, we note that authoritarianism, violence and prejudice have taken on explicit materiality as a State policy (at its different levels of government), and supported by a large portion of the population. Contemporaneously, can be note that authoritarianism, violence and prejudice have taken on explicit materiality as a State policy (at its different levels of government), and supported by a large portion of the population. In this article, from a theoretical reflection, we argue that such occurrences do not start recently, but have historical matrixes not properly elaborated by Brazilian society, acting in this way, in their intersubjectivities. To support the argument, the article is organized into three interrelated blocks of analysis. Initially, we discussed the modern coloniality that still persists in relations between peripheral and central countries. Then, using Hanna Arendt as a reference, we problematize the potential of banal evil to ensnare and circumscribe the colonial system through the invisibility of otherness in human relations. We ended with a debate on the effects of colonial violence in Brazil, concealed through the circulation of the myths of the cordiality and pacifism of the Brazilian population and that of racial democracy, imposing forgetfulness of our history.

Keywords : violence; contemporaneity; intersubjectivity; evil.

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