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 thecontemporary hater as a figure shaped by accelerated rhythms, spectacle, and frustration. FromEllis’s “American Psycho” to McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men”, it reads Bateman andChigurh as emblematic outcomes of a life-world driven by perpetual novelty and mediatedexposure. The hater, born within the logics of late-television formats and algorithmicamplification, embodies a quest for visibility that oscillates between aggression and a confusedresistance to social acceleration. Distinct from historical forms of enmity, this hatred arises fromspectatorship itself, from the frictions of identity performed under constant public gaze. Throughliterary icons, the article explores frustration as a structuring force of contemporary life andreflects on the figure of the stranger as a latent presence within modern subjectivity.