Mimese, ressentimento do guerreiro e formação: manifestações contra a universidade pública brasileira em redes sociais

Abstract

During the last few years, in Brazil, it has been possible to witness the ascension of manifestations that precede the totalitarianism. Attacks to academic institutions, which also represent attacks to Education and critical thinking, have intensified and disseminated in this period. These manifestations can be visualized mainly on social networks. Besides the direct hostility towards the institutions, a pseudo-rationality of paranoid traces has taken shape, which tries to raise false judgements to the status of knowledge while driving the hatred to predetermined targets. Questioning about the motivations to support these ideas, this research seeks to move the knowledge from the Critical Theory of Society in an attempt to unveil the subjective mechanisms of such phenomena. The work proposes to discuss concepts that relate to education and formation and to the manifestations of hatred and contempt towards educational institutions: the Frankfurtian concepts of mimesis and resentment of the warrior. It also conducts an historical analysis of recent changes in Brazilian universities, in terms of economical transformations that submitted them to politics of adjustments to capitalist society. As a next step, it searches to perform a content analysis of the object, in the form of publications that express de contempt for the Brazilian universities, the Education and the knowledge.