MAYHEM PROJECT: CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT LABOR RELATIONS IN THE FICTIONAL WORK “FIGHT CLUB”

Abstract

Although postmodernity has brought numerous important advances to society, it has also resignified roles and concepts, not always in an evolutionary way. This dichotomy is especially demonstrated in labor and consumer relations, both of which directly influence the development of identity, dictating how the social integration of the postmodern individual will take place. The idea is related to the concept of "alienation of labor" developed by Karl Marx, and it is possible to apply it also to intellectual labor. This thesis was analyzed through the perspective of the literary and cinematographic work "Fight Club", which, although at first not demonstrating, much relates to and also criticizes these postmodern relations. In this sense, the work first summarizes the work in a superficial way, to then understand the relationship that labor activities have in the creation and development of the individuality of the subject, doing so through a comparison between the concept of "alienation of work" in the context of its origin and in postmodernity, understanding how the role of the character Tyler Durden relates to it. Subsequently, the study discusses the infinite labor-consumption cycle in which not only the fictional character "narrator" is inserted, but the overwhelming majority of society, discussing the coercive social structures of perpetuation of the capitalist productive system and how the character Tyler once again breaks this pattern. The methodology used was the doctrinal and dogmatic analysis of the themes, made by comparative research between the referent bibliography and the fictional work "Fight Club".