Dogmas, violence and authoritarianism in the digital age in the stories of Adrián Curiel Rivera

Abstract

The digital age has given rice to multiple authoritarian and violent tendencies that lead to human degradation: lynchings and the spread of fake new on social media; impostures and necrophilic narcissism; radical feminism, intolerance and the nullification of the will of others; post-apocalyptic scenarios and dystopian atmospheres; the imposition of inclusive language and political correctness, as well as the dissemination of ideologies dictated by the consumer market and globalization. These propensities have been practiced in the realms of governmental power and in private and intimate spheres, by both male and female subjects. In this article we will analyze the structures and control mechanisms of these tyrannies in some narratives from two books by Adrián Curiel Rivera: Amores veganos (2021) and El camino de Wembra y otras utopías feministas (2023). Fort the examination of this destructiveness that has emerged in contemporary cybernetics we find methodological support in the scrutiny of sociopolitical behaviors elaborated by Erich Fromm, Noam Chomsky, Edgar Morin, Darío Villanueva and Ana María Olabuenaga, among others specialists.