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      THE IMPERATIVE OF OPINION: A PRAGMATIC SOCIOLOGY OF CRITIQUE IN ‘ACTUALITÉ POLITIQUE’ Translated title: O IMPERATIVO DA OPINIÃO: UMA SOCIOLOGIA PRAGMÁTICA DA CRÍTICA NA ‘ATUALIDADE POLÍTICA’

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          Abstract Based on the concept of actualité politique, this essay aims to analyze the economy of opinion and critique in contemporary societies. Based on various research projects arising from our works and on a reflection concerning the pragmatic sociology of critique, we respond to a fundamental question: what are the determinants of the ‘passage’ of a critique into action; i.e., the conversion of internal indignation into an external manifestation of the social actors? The argument has three parts, one structural and two conjectural. In the first, we map the main variables determining the passage from indignation to criticism. In the second, we show how a series of historical transformations in the scarcity/abundance interplay of the elements in this matrix have made opinion and criticism more available and, in the continued evolution of their presence in contemporary life, a core mode of sociability. In the third part, we analyze three consequences of this movement: the trivialization of criticism, conflict, and the devaluation of objective truth.

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          Resumo O objetivo deste ensaio é analisar, com base na ideia de atualidade política, a economia da opinião e da crítica nas sociedades contemporâneas. Com base em várias pesquisas oriundas de nossos trabalhos e em uma reflexão sobre a sociologia pragmática da crítica, enfrentamos uma pergunta fundamental: quais os determinantes da “passagem ao ato” de uma crítica, isto é, da conversão da indignação interna em manifestação externa aos atores sociais? O argumento é subdividido em três partes, uma estrutural e duas conjunturais. Na primeira, mapeamos as principais variáveis determinantes da passagem da indignação à crítica. Na segunda, mostramos que uma série de transformações históricas no jogo escassez/abundância dos elementos daquela matriz tornou a opinião e a crítica mais disponíveis e, na continuidade de sua presença na vida contemporânea, um modo privilegiado de sociabilidade. Na terceira parte, analisamos três consequências desse movimento: a banalização da crítica, o conflito e a desvalorização da verdade objetiva.

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              Accelerating dynamics of collective attention

              With news pushed to smart phones in real time and social media reactions spreading across the globe in seconds, the public discussion can appear accelerated and temporally fragmented. In longitudinal datasets across various domains, covering multiple decades, we find increasing gradients and shortened periods in the trajectories of how cultural items receive collective attention. Is this the inevitable conclusion of the way information is disseminated and consumed? Our findings support this hypothesis. Using a simple mathematical model of topics competing for finite collective attention, we are able to explain the empirical data remarkably well. Our modeling suggests that the accelerating ups and downs of popular content are driven by increasing production and consumption of content, resulting in a more rapid exhaustion of limited attention resources. In the interplay with competition for novelty, this causes growing turnover rates and individual topics receiving shorter intervals of collective attention.
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                Journal
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                Sociologia & Antropologia
                Sociol. Antropol.
                Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil )
                2236-7527
                2238-3875
                2023
                : 13
                : 3
                : e230034
                Affiliations
                [2] Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro orgnameUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil vittorio.talone@ 123456gmail.com
                [3] Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro orgnameUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil ailtongualandejr@ 123456gmail.com
                [1] Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro orgnameUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil av.werneck@ 123456ifcs.ufrj.br
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                S2238-38752023000300307 S2238-3875(23)01300300307
                10.1590/2238-38752023v13312
                5157378a-14d1-44a1-87a4-a7108654a867

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 17 July 2023
                : 01 June 2023
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                Critique,Indignation,Atualidade política,Crítica,Indignação,Redes sociais,Imperativo da opinião,Actualité politique,Social media,Imperative of opinion

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