Do horror: a cena contemporânea

Abstract

The representation o f hum or today does not result, as it was believed, from the m em ory theaters multiplication, neither from the efficiency loss o f means o f representation, taken effect by the waning of the symbolic, with the contribution of various comm unication technologies. Such waning results from the power of the images circulating, from the excess and spectacularization that make up the esthetic regime. A fter the time of circulating theories and experiences of closing the representation, it can be noted that we still don’t have ‘a language which is worth translating the current state of things ”