UNDER RULE OF THE FATHER: A SHORT INQUIRY UPON TOTEMIZATION OF ROMANIAN POLITICS IN CYBER TIMES
UNDER RULE OF THE FATHER: A SHORT INQUIRY UPON TOTEMIZATION OF ROMANIAN POLITICS IN CYBER TIMES

Summary/Abstract: If “textualization of form is always re-representation” as John Borneman assumes in his influential essay “Theorizing regime ends”, what would it be the future of contemporary politics, evolving towards an image dominated formula and relapsing in its very own textual equations. Cyber age of politics ended Guttenberg’s version of modernity and inaugurated a nexus of phenomena as: deconstruction and deterritorialisation of democracy, decline of historical memory, emergence of fluid collective imageries, genesis of new virtual communities and most important, recovery of paternalist affinities and totemization of politics. This short essay aims to highlight the constitutive clauses of present tendency towards personalization and paternalization of politics in former socialist realm, with a focus on the recent Romanian civil uprisings and vernacular patricentric responses.

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