THE AVENGERS: MOBILIZATION OF DISCOURSES ABOUT RELIGION, MYTH, TECHNOLOGY, AND HISTORY

Abstract

This paper addresses a postdoctoral research, which discursively analyzes The Avengers, aiming to examine eight enunciative sequences of the movie. Based on the Foucauldian perspective of archaeology and genealogy, we observe utterances regarding violence/peace; truth/untruth, and knowledge/unawareness. In the archaeology, the focus is in two basic concepts: discourse and utterance, where we observe the object, the fields of knowledge mobilized in/by it (religion/myth/ufology; technology/armamentism; history), and study the events around them. Regarding the genealogy, the reflection is on the relations between power and the production of homogenizing truths, as the latter is capable of universalizing cultures and ways of life. Two questions guide the analysis: what is the role of the circulated discourses in this Cinematographic Universe in order to create the subjects' imaginary? In addition, through an archaeological gesture, we question the connection between the media and the history of the present. It is noticeable that the Avengers are remarkable people, resembling the political-economic and arms power of USA, the possible cleverness of their heroes.

Keywords:
Avengers; Archaeology; Genealogy; Discourse