“I’d never seen a person like that”. Studio della genesi e della performance dell’hater

This essay intertwines literary analysis and sociological inquiry to trace the emergence of the contemporary hater as a figure shaped by accelerated rhythms, spectacle, and frustration. From Ellis’s “American Psycho” to McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men”, it reads Bateman and Chigurh as emblematic outcomes of a life-world driven by perpetual novelty and mediated exposure. The hater, born within the logics of late-television formats and algorithmic amplification, embodies a quest for visibility that oscillates between aggression and a confused resistance to social acceleration. Distinct from historical forms of enmity, this hatred arises from spectatorship itself, from the frictions of identity performed under constant public gaze. Through literary icons, the article explores frustration as a structuring force of contemporary life and reflects on the figure of the stranger as a latent presence within modern subjectivity.