Nou-vorbirea pandemică și post-pandemică. Realitate, discurs, putere
Pandemic and Post-pandemic Newspeak. Reality, discourse and power

Summary/Abstract: New-speak is to be unraveled as the ultimate process of transition from one dominant logic to another. Generally, before new-speak, the reality is mastered through a complex process of change of rationally constructed arguments. Public space is conceived as being produced by a long series of interactions that are permanent, consistent, multiple and free of all constraint. A market of rationally constructed arguments works for both the consistency of a community as well as for the consolidation of objectivity. With censorship, self-refraining, threats and menaces, the long lasting interactions on a free basis are no longer valid. The official power discourse that replaces common objectivity fosters a completely new reality, enforced by the overwhelming control of all kinds of old and new media. With the current epidemic situation in Romania, the official power discourse and the widespread coercion push the individuals once again in what was familiar to their parents and grand-parents, namely into a simulated external conformity, making thus room for an internal, yet quit personal inner liberty.

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