When language becomes noise

Actual violence in times of virtual blah-blah-blah

Abstract

The political modernity has witnessed the government change of its practices through a growing insertion of life at the center of public management. This biopolitical turn unleashed a series of new processes and dynamics in society which have as primary goal the regulatory intervention of life. This paper will present a specific unleashment: the profusion of virtual exception spaces in which reigns the policy of silence. Virtual is here understood in its computational sense, as that reality which exists only as world simulation of life through a set of electronic devices (hardware). Faced with the imperative to communicate in a continuous transmission of speech, through the abundant social networks, the contemporary witnesses the transformation of language into noise. Although we think we have more possibilities of expression, in fact we help to build a scenario in which the hallucinating reproduction of the word creates a polyphonic sound that resembles a continuous noise and prevents us from discerning the well-said from the badly-said. Given this, we ask ourselves about the danger that the world, its essential openness and the real would sink into virtual violence that touches us through policies of silence.