Jinx: absence of futures, intensity, and exit into the scopic system
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https://doi.org/10.30973/esdi.2026.12.1.260Keywords:
social struggles, intensity, capitalism, future, hauntologyAbstract
The construction of Jinx in Netflix's as a character in the animated series Arcane, makes it possible to relate her to key elements of the capitalist scopic regime and to understand her as a form of intensification of the processes produced by contemporary institutions and consumer culture among young audiences. This paper aims to provide the reader with an understanding of the crisis generated by the capitalist system through the absence or negation of futures, while suggesting that the intensification concerning technology and its applications functions as a tool for alignment, survival, and acceleration of the end when all institutional avenues have been closed.
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