Title: Violent Fury: Can Third-party Outrage Manifest Cyclical, Mimetic Violence?
Abstract:Public articulations of outrage about wrongdoing and its perpetrators seem ubiquitous, especially on social media, and often seek worthy objectives such as justice for the wronged. However, expression...Public articulations of outrage about wrongdoing and its perpetrators seem ubiquitous, especially on social media, and often seek worthy objectives such as justice for the wronged. However, expressions of outrage can sometimes lead to an innocent person's career being destroyed or even the endangering of their life. How might we understand such devastating outcomes from a phenomenon that seeks to respond to violence? This paper sees outrage as an emotion whereby one appraises that someone has harmed another and/or violated moral norms. It evaluates how third parties' public articulations of their outrage can manifest the cyclical violence of Girardian mimetic theory. By engaging with Mark Brewin's claims about the revelatory function of texts, the paper proposes a nuanced understanding of the relation between social media and the prominence and prevalence of contemporary outrage. It seeks to contribute to analyses of outrage using Girardian theory, especially in political emotion research.Read More
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-10-05
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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