JUVENILE PHOBIAS OF POST-APOCALYPTIC POWER: THE MORAL DEVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE MILLSTONES OF BIOPOLITICS

Abstract

Relevance. The anthropological crisis in which modern civilization is plunged sets new standards for the interpretation of contradictions between generations and dictates scenarios for their visualization. This conflict acquires a political and ideological sound, which urgently requires its humanitarian expertise, the formation of a body of recommendations to minimize the negative consequences. The aim of the research is to analyze the strategies for formation of a post-apocalyptic social space and the principles of deformation of intergenerational communication using the example of the Hollywood franchise about «Divergent». Methods. The authors rely on an interdisciplinary complex of semiotic, phenomenological and psychoanalytic methods, which allows a comprehensive analysis of the biopolitical and ideological strategies of post-apocalyptic power. Results. The strengthening of the institutions of power of the future is carried out through the imposition of a totalitarian, hierarchical system, each level of which fulfills a prescribed moral mission, which makes it possible to rigidly give official and everyday functions to the highest sacred and anthropological meanings. The effectiveness of the existence of a factional system of a post-apocalyptic future is ensured by the creation of a rigid socialization mechanism designed to form and canonize standardized moral virtues. Functioning of such well-established mechanism is hindered by divergents, individuals who have all the factional abilities at the same time. Their universality undermines the stability of the dystopian society, which leads to the desire of the authorities to physically eliminate divergents from the social space. The state order is opposed by the non-systemic opposition of insurgents, deviants who seek to destroy factional determination. The demonstrative struggle of the factional society with the insurgents is its systemic function, which strengthens the positions of power, which is the natural result of shadow experiments on society. Findings. The use of occupational segregation technologies is becoming the leading biopolitical, communitarian strategy of post-apocalyptic, totalitarian power.

Keywords

• post-apocalypse
• divergent
• insurgent
• alligent
• biopolitics