A circularidade do neoliberalismo em The Circle EUA: uma análise discursiva da primeira temporada da série

Abstract

Television and social media form a feedback loop, working with important moments that happened and projecting possible and improbable scenarios, besides both being marked by society and history. In this joint, the reality show The Circle US (2020) was recorded and made available by the Netflix platform with participants whose messages and speeches are analyzed to verify the hypothesis that neoliberalism’s discourses are present in their words. Initially, reflections are woven from how these two forms of media activities in the public space. Then, we try to understand the series dynamic, that is, how its participants in their social relations are crossed with neoliberalism’s devices. Observing the social practices and discoursive analyzing them repeats itself during the five chapters with a theoretical base in discourse analysis to deepen the questions and better understanding certain existing tensions in society. The analyses present the aim of making the present social historical forces emerge. Such forces leave some evidence in the discourse, understood from developments of research by Deusdará and Rocha (2021), Maingueneau (1997), and Orlandi (1999, 2015) — with special attention to their respective notions of implications analysis, discoursive community, and discoursive formation and memory. In the end, there is the suggestion of studying and deepening the questions with the support of further studies in various areas of human scientific knowledge