Escaladas da contracultura: Natal, década de 1980

Abstract

The counterculture is known as a phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. Its origins date back to the late 1940s, with the "howls" of the beat generation, whose visibility began in the 1950s. But what is considered to be the overflow of this phenomenon, which takes place during the 1960s, the main showcase, the May 1968 in France, unfolding in the second half of the 1960s in the 1970s in some countries of Europe and the USA, with the explosion of rock'in roll and hippie movement, influencing generations of young people In the whole world. In Brazil, the counterculture had its culmination in the 1970s, with repercussions in the 1980s. In both contexts, the counterculture made use of art and literature, where it found the most fertile environment of expression. This thesis deals with some aspects of intellectual and artistic activism in Natal, in the 1980s, as a phenomenon that is inserted in the context of countercultural expression. I took as a main reference the concept of counterculture in Roszack (1972), for whom the counterculture was the form of contestation to the rationalization of the technocratic society that consolidates after the Second World War, whose main feature is the excessive rationality of economic and socio-cultural relations in all spheres of life in Western societies, and also in Goffman and Joy (2007), who recognize the period referred to above as the most significant; However, they choose to analyze counterculture as a culture-specific phenomenon, regardless of time and space, and use the term "countercultures" to denote the innumerable experiences of contestation and denial of establishment structures in various historical experiences. consider it a tradition of rupture. The narrative of countercultural expressions in the city of Natal in the 1980s seeks to bring to light some manifestations of the counterculture, who were the subjects, as expressed and interacted with the groups of artists who were part of the counterculture in the city of Natal during the decade 1980. To this end, research is used, making an anchorage in a significant part of the artistic and literary production of some subjects represented by the individual, as well as by the collective, located in the countercultural circuit of the city in the period in focus. It is based on Morin's conception of a character-event-modifier (Morin, 2005), to narrate how this experience of the counterculture constitutes a phenomenon that incorporates the search for expression of a culture-revolt (KRISTEVA, 2000). Also adopts as theoretical centrality the sloterdjikian notion of anthropotechnician, from the metaphor of improbable mountain climbing of the culture by the establishment of vertical tensions Sloterdjik (2013). As a narrative of the countercultural experience in the Focal Period, he tentatively concludes that such an experience can legitimately be regarded as a counter-cultural manifestation, and yet, like so many others in different places, it is part of a movement of transformation of culture, which we can situate within the framework of the theses defended by the authors, that is, as a character-event-modifier, is part of a culture-revolt that can be understood in the light of the resubjectivation process of the subjects in their exercise of individual asceticism, which ultimately determines the transformations in culture.