Institutional violence by the cultural industry: educational debates

Abstract

Cinematographic works offer us rich raw material for new understandings of the world, culture and languages that can be reconstructed in different contexts, as well as launching sensitive and ambiguous issues that arise as concerns to learn to think about institutionalized violence. Through a hermeneutical approach, we interpret and understand the Game of Thronesseries as a possibility to establish a counterpoint to the complex dynamics of physical violence in the social arena, because there are technical issues related to the market that underlie the film that provoke us to reflect on the poignant problems in contemporary life. Education, in this sense, has a political dimension to challenge with the cinematographic work itself the established standards, enabling new debates to re-educate the mass and violent modes of action, in order to respect and value the socio-cultural differences. Only by a path of endless reconciliation with the other in their differences and social conflicts can we overcome the individualistic feeling in the face of violence and the permanent controversial relations and conflicts that devastate us. The results indicate that it is necessary to take into account the institutionalized form in which education takes place as the appropriation of knowledge of the cultural industry, to overcome the truisms and banalities of the world and to establish educational dialogues less oppressive, passive and conformist, articulating social projects against recidivism or perpetuation of marketed violence and other types of barbarism at school.