Vigilancia electrónica a gran escala y listas de alerta: ¿Productos de una política paranoica?

Abstract We know from the articles of Richard Hofstadter that a defensive, even paranoid style has pervaded American politics from time to time. Murray Edelman and Michael Rogin have shifted the psychological stance of this terminology to a political one, focusing on how the notion of the construction of a political spectacle can excite hysteria and paranoia to attract public attention and by so doing build a securitization that expands the executive powers of the state. Rogin described how American political discourse has emphasized counter- subversive strategies in the construction of enemie...