Abstract:Reflecting on the characteristics that saturate the subjects of our time, this article seeks to question authenticity and happiness as cultural imperatives. It seeks as well to perceive its connection with cultural practices and its consequences in the process of producing contemporary subjectivities, considering how these ideals can be perceived in the logic of spectacularization. Therefore, this article briefly goes through the economic, socio-cultural and political processes that were the foundation of cont… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.