O sonho da ideologia produz monstros: desumanização em Men against fire, Black Mirror

Abstract

The relationship between dystopia and ideology is intrinsic: the first feeds on the second, producing fictional realities in which opposite ideologies have created a devastated future. In this scenario, the fear of technology allying with fascist or totalitarian movements ends up giving rise to the episode Men against fire, from the British series Black mirror. If any fascista movement depends on the creation of monsters, objective enemies to direct hate and terror, Men against fire takes this proposal to a literal point, and its fascist/totalitarian ideology alters the very perceptions of reality to make it possible to exterminate the monster. Within a qualitative the oretical basis that mixes texts on ideology, dystopia, fascismo and monster narratives, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the process of dehumanization of the objective enemy in fascism/totalitarianism, in the light of the chosen object. The intention is that, in comparison with the debate about monsters, dehumanization and fascism, it is possible to perceive the relationship that fascismo has with the narrative of monsters, while, paradoxically, itself end supcreating its own banal monsters.