Distant from victim: survival morality and the television production of entrepreneur of the self
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Morality. Suffering. Survival. Television. Victim.Abstract
The article discuss, in survival reality shows, signs of a cultural and moral transformation of what is understood and legitimized as a victim, as sufferer and as survival in contemporary. From the analysis of the Discovery Channel's TV show Naked and Afraid, it is argued that these television productions invest narratively and aesthetically both in the spectacularization of suffering and in the cosmetic configuration of the survivor. Thus, the figure of the survivor becomes part of a pedagogy and rationality guided by a neoliberal logic of reconfiguration of self as enterprise. These reality shows therefore function as devices that produce modes of subjectivation associated with the prodigious and morally legitimate heroism of the survivor whose negative image is that of the victim unable to overcome misfortunes with resilience.
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