Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia (Jan 2007)
Da multidão-massa à multidão-potência: contribuições ao estudo da multidão para a Psicologia Social
Abstract
The activity of multitude actually, associate with the idea of virtual networks and to the experience of "interactive activism", may analyze the capture forms and the resistance strategies in the contemporaneous subjtetivation forms. To adverse of take the multitude like a simple "unity in grouping" (multitude-mass), to present considerate it like a "multiplicity in dispersion" (multitude-potence) able to produce singularies alternatives to the logic of the global capitalism. The anti-globalization movements in the actuality express some of those alternatives. After situated the multitudes in the problematization of the concept of multitude-mass and multitude-pontence, we pretend to put in question again the theme of multitude to the contemporaneous Social Psychology.