From banality of evil to gore capitalism.

Reflexiones en torno al totalitarismo del mercado.

Abstract

The present article researches some of the elements of the phenomenological analysis of totalitarianism, following Hannah Arendt. Such as the concepts of secret society in plain sight, banality of evil and radical evil; elements that the author developed in her reflections on totalitarian politics. However, the text links those notions, from Arendt´s analysis, with contemporary mechanisms of market imperialism ‒neoliberalism‒, which bring about family resemblances around the need for the construction of a subjectivity that enables value-generation devices, until reaching its culmination, through the configuration of a subjectivity oriented to the production of death ‒which is understood in terms of gore capitalism, according to Zayak Valencia´s definition. A category of capital understood not as an anomaly in the generation of wealth within the logic of capitalist value creation, but as representing its ultimate horizon. Death, the production of the corpse, through necro enterprises that articulate and set up a system of value creation, especially in borderline areas and precarious zones of developing nations, is understood as the last stage of the dynamics of capital. Thus, the internal logic of global neoliberalism becomes totalitarian forms which maintain violence –driven by criminal and power groups– as the ultimate foundation of capital and its authentic silhouette.