FROM A SOCIAL MEDIA WINDOW: VIOLENT REFLEXES AND ARMED PROJECTION

Abstract

A teenager, (in Spanish, “adolescent”) carrying such adjective of lack in his own biographical stage, holds a fire gun in his hands. After threatening, he charges it up and shoots it into the air, in a poor neighborhood, with two partners moving in a stolen car. Another one, broadcast it alive on a social media, along with a “Trap” song. To some, this makes them feel scared, sad, helpless. To others, provokes, infuriates, pushes. But, to everyone, it gives us the opportunity to look out, in a sensorial, descriptive and even critical key, to question our self his exposure in the construction of a character shared in our deprived realities, of identity valuation consequent to our consume and ostentation structures, in a search of watching it self, as a reflected mirror, to others watch it too, respect it and even fear it but without the fear (or without the hope) that the State sees it or keeps looking at it, just like it always has been unseen, by the protectional and educative agencies, and far worse, by the persecution and control agencies. That is how come together, in a paradigmatic way, different elements of social and criminogenic nature reflected on a representative image, almost archetypal in a social media. How much responsibility the State has in the contextual anomie of our critical neighborhoods, and what is the eventual power of intromission in the public exhibition that obeys to the need of ostentation or reflect and projection of certain individuals?