Anatomy of polarization and communicational barbarism 79 cumscribe the right to speak to specialized knowledge in the institutional sphere (church/priest and hospital/medical staff). The unrestricted right to speech is embraced in instances where it appears confined to the prevailing communicational process. In these contexts, the “shouting” of Bolsonaro supporters can be characterized as symbolic violence or, at the very least, a disre- gard for legitimate interactants. According to Klemperer (2009), the exalted sermons, the “shouting” was a characteristic of Nazi-fascist leaders. The act of vociferating, shouting, and speaking loudly without paying attention to what is being said, is advocated as the predominant style of what the author refers to as LTI - Language of the Third Reich (Klemperer, 2009). This style was used to silence the voice of reason and reasoned debate, discouraging and confusing free thought. When people shout during a mass, they break a specific communication contract: in the homily (the priest’s sermon), only the priest speaks and it is up to the faithful to listen attentively to his discourse, which is defined by the Catholic rite. In this case, the Bolsonaro’s supporters who shouted during the homily destroyed the contract of the communication process involved, promoting what we call de-circulation and which we will detail further below, extending the understanding of the process of de-circulation to other processualities beyond those we have illustrated so far. Respect for the contract of each communicational instance is one of the prerequisites for there to be communica- tion. When that fails to happen, we have miscommunication, or rather, in the words of Lucien Sfez (2007), “confusional communication”, which loses its proper communicational purpose as a link that brings two subjects into contact. The tautistic machine communicates “endlessly with itself, in a perfect circular solipsism” (Sfez, 2007, p.140). In the concept of “tautism”, Sfez (2007) proposes a fusion between the terms tautology and autism to understand the effect of media in contemporary times: while content is incessantly repeated, its viewers position themselves in disconnection with the outside world. We enter, unable to escape, into an organic com- munication, in a self-manufacturing of external
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