Abstract

HERNANDEZ MADRID, Miguel J.. La banalidad del mal y el rostro contemporáneo de su ideología en una teleserie del narcotraficante Pablo Escobar en Colombia. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2014, n.8, pp.1-21. ISSN 2007-4964.

Banality of evil is a concept coined by the german philosopher Hannah Arendt to describe how a system of political power can trivialize the extermination of human beings when performed as a bureaucratic procedure executed by officers unable to think about the ethical and moral consequences of their own actions. The purpose of this article is to study in a TV series about the biography of the Colombian drug dealer Pablo Escobar how and why this concept can take other forms of ideological content, with a similar effect to the observed by Hannah Arendt in the trial of the Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann. The methodological focus of this work sets in a contemporary perspective the approach of the sociology of language and critical narrative, inaugurated by Jean-Pierre Faye in his studies about totalitarian languages, as it proposes as a central issue the conversion of ideological devices in the Information age in which social suffering is shown as entertainment. The proposal is to deconstruct in the TV series' narrative, the mechanisms that present criminal actions as common facts. The references for this analysis are the religious signs that have an effect of reality in the television scripts development and its function of ideological interpellation.

Keywords : Banality of Evil; drug dealer Pablo Escobar; Colombia; social suffering.

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