Políticas da imagem: vigilância e resistência na dadosfera

Digital image, selfies, memes, deep fake, internet of things, artificial intelligence, digital censorship: all these new developments in the contemporary world are analyzed by Giselle Beiguelman to describe (and at the same time guide the reader to recognize in the world around them) the role of image in social relations today. The author proposes, throughout six unpublished essays, a reflection on the status of the image in the contemporary world. Since the emergence of photography, and then cinema, the universe of technical images has not experienced a process of transformation as radical as that of our time. Images have become the main mediation interfaces of everyday life, occupying communication, affective relationships, infrastructure, surveillance aesthetics and body scanning systems in the city. When talking about image politics, she argues that images are, in addition to being a place for the transmission of ideas and languages, the very field of current political tensions and disputes. Beiguelman associates the invention and massive distribution of smartphones with a new surveillance regime, no longer instituted by the State, but the result of the systematic capture of personal data, deliberately offered by users to social media platforms – the datasphere. The countless production of images in social media feeds and stories, surveillance cameras and official records configure, according to her, a new aesthetics of surveillance.