Fear, apathy, and social control
An analysis of the film "My Dinner with André"
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https://doi.org/10.26807/cav.v10i20.653Keywords:
biopolitics, discipline, control society, surveillance, precarization, subjectivity, hyperindividualismAbstract
The film My Dinner with André (1981), directed by Louis Malle, unfolds an extensive philosophical dialogue that problematizes modern urban life, exploring the dynamics of control, alienation, and surveillance that shape contemporary existence. This paper seeks to analyze the film in relation to Michel Foucault's theories on discipline and biopolitics, Gilles Deleuze's conceptualization of societies of control, Angela Davis's critique of the prison-industrial complex, and Gilles Lipovetsky's reflections on the existential void in contemporary societies. It will be argued that the contemporary city functions as a device of normalization or personalization, shaping subjectivities through fear, economic precarization, the intersectionality of class, race, and gender, and the internalization of surveillance. What possibilities for resistance to the system within these structural frameworks remain?
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Malle, L. (Director). (1981). My Dinner with André [Película]. New Yorker Films.
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