O mundo do avesso by Letícia Cesarino is a work that requires courage – to be written and to be read

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v18i1p295-302

Keywords:

digital, cybernetic explanation, politics, anti-structural publics

Abstract

This review aims to describe and reflect on the main ideas contained in the work, O mundo do avesso: Verdade e política na era digital by Letícia Cesarino, a Brazilian anthropologist, researcher, and teacher. The author explains that understanding contemporary phenomena such as populism and disinformation first requires observing the technical dimension of their infrastructures - relying on the cybernetic perspective of Gregory Bateson to explain her central argument. As a result, Cesarino develops a powerful and disruptive work that envisions new possibilities for understanding the crises that permeate the current Brazilian sociopolitical scenario and modifies the thinking of her attentive reader.

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Author Biography

  • Jacqueline Ausier Domingues, Universidade de São Paulo

    Doutoranda e mestra pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo (PPGCOM – ECA/USP). Membro do Grupo de Estudos Semióticos em Comunicação, Cultura e Consumo (GESC3).

References

Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind: Collected essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology. University of Chicago Press.

Cesarino, L. (2022). O mundo do avesso: Verdade e política na era digital. Ubu.

Farias, L. A., Cardoso, I., & Oliveira, P. R. N. (2020). Comunicação, opinião pública e os impactos da revolução digital na era da pós-verdade e fake news. Organicom, 17(34), 71-81. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-2593.organicom.2021.176133.

Kuhn, T. S. (2018). A estrutura das revoluções científicas. (B. V. Boeira & N. Boeira, Trads.). 18a ed. Perspectiva. (Obra original publicada em 1962)

Turner, V. W. (2013). O processo ritual: Estrutura e antiestrutura. (N. C. Castro, Trad). 2a ed. Vozes. (Obra original publicada em 1969)

Wiener, N. (1948). Cybernetics. Scientific American, 179(5), 14-18. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1148-14

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Published

2024-04-30

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Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024)

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Book reviews

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Domingues, J. A. (2024). O mundo do avesso by Letícia Cesarino is a work that requires courage – to be written and to be read. MATRIZes, 18(1), 295-302. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v18i1p295-302