La no violencia como disidencia en la actual esfera pública quiteña, estudio de caso del colectivo el punto.

Abstract

The preparation of this academic article aims to highlight non-violence as a dissident response by groups and social groups (collective groups) that feel affected or discontent with the patriarchal hetero normative set of rules that the globally hegemonic culture imposes. A brief retrospective of History is made to determine the origins of social evil; inside capitalism, in fact, direct violence is contrasted with intangible violence. Both of them have been present throughout History. The current consequence is media naturalization of violent behaviors that limit the other‟s freedom. However, it is evident that nowadays violence is rooted in mass cultures that reveal themselves, on a personal level, with individualism or consumerism in order to fulfill social ideals of happiness. On the other hand, there is the conceptual part where some differentiations are made about violence, nonviolence and community social dissidence. Finally, non-violent and counter-hegemonic activism is linked to digital-web environments where diversified spaces have been created which generate massive voices looking for non-violent answers to make dissidences public, for instance, through taking over public spaces. Such is the case of the El Punto collective group whose activism involves art through communicational and community processes that claim the existence of a diverse world that is not always keeping pace with the Western approach and speech.