New Authoritarianisms and Hypermediation: Updating the F-Scale for the Analysis of Online Radicalization, Hate Speech, and Neopopulism in the Twenty-First Century
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| Médium: | artículo original |
| Stav: | Versión publicada |
| Datum vydání: | 2025 |
| Popis: | This article examines the continued relevance of the theoretical and empirical tools developed by the first generation of the Frankfurt School for analyzing contemporary forms of authoritarianism. It is assumed that the Freudo-Marxist synthesis between economic structure and libidinal economy articulated by Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Erich Fromm did not lose pertinence with the end of interwar historical fascism, but rather requires a conceptual update capable of accounting for its networked and postmodern manifestations: algorithmic radicalization, hate speech on digital platforms, and twenty-first-century neopopulism. To this end, the nine dimensions of the F-Scale (Fascism Scale) from The Authoritarian Personality (1950) are reinterpreted in light of surveillance capitalism, the radicalization architecture specific to digital platforms is examined, and a psychoanalytic reading of contemporary neopopulism is offered, centered on the existential anxiety of late neoliberalism. On this basis, a mixed-methods proposal is sketched — the F-Digital Scale — and both the theoretical limits of this program and its possible paths toward emancipation are discussed: critical media literacy, democratic regulation of digital infrastructure, and the reconstruction of the deliberative public sphere. |
| Země: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Instituce: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Jazyk: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/23016 |
| On-line přístup: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/praxis/article/view/23016 |
| Klíčové slovo: | Frankfurt School F-Scale digital authoritarianism surveillance capitalism neopopulism Escuela de Frankfurt Escala F autoritarismo digital capitalismo de vigilancia neopopulismo |