PARA-ANTISOCIALITY: HATRED, CELEBRITY, PROJECTION, ATTRACTION, IMPOTENCE, AND CATHARSIS IN LIMINAL SOCIETIES

The last three decades of media expansion and technological innovation, encompassing the 24-hour news cycle, original desktop- later site-based internet, gaming, social media, smartphone, have radically altered means by which citizens developed developing world access information how they construct maintain relationships. As reach, robustness, ubiquity, engagement potential two-dimensional expanded, those three-dimensional diminished (an effect accelerated during COVID post-COVID eras). one atrophies, a new rushes in to fill void. Celebrity culture; neoliberal economic policies; decline family, community, organised religion; post-World War II suburbanisation aesthetic sterilisation shared spaces all contributed decay fragilization antecedent meat space (in-person) bonds. In their place, has risen parasocial relationship—that between audience performer or, more modern terminology, content creator consumer. Why celebrities/content creators are loved is not question be posed herein. Notoriety, adulation, status, physical attractiveness, charm—these do much explain why famous would-be alike regarded with affection. hated—as often are, if only portion audience—is less clear. This paper will examine origins utility antagonistic relationships as well extent para-antisociality harmful consumers what (if anything) can should done manage hostility relationships.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0009/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>