“Engenharia Reversa” e a crítica à manipulação do discurso no combate ao ‘terror’

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the dystopic scenario illustrated in the episode 'Men Against Fire', the fifth episode of the third season, created in the British series Black Mirror, which in an impressive and surprisingly camouflaged, tells the story of, apparently, an US soldier who enlists in a military program to combat and exterminate genetically inferior creatures, called "Roaches", undergoing a process of training and conditioning that includes the implementation of a system of augmented reality and strengthening of the senses in the minds of the military. This episode alludes to reality, in which soldiers are trained to distance themselves more and more from their socially constructed enemies, both physically and psychologically, dehumanizing them, to make their execution more acceptable. Moreover, the work will deal with the issue of speech and how its distortion and propagation is used by institutions in order to manipulate society to achieve its goals. Being a very recent object of study and not having much material on, the research was done through articles and academic books, articles from news websites and audio-visual materials, such as episodes of series, from Netflix, for example.