Sujeitos suspeitos, imagens suspeitas: as relações entre cultura midiática e cultura de vigilância

Abstract

This paper considers some of the many aspects of the complex established relations between mediatic culture and surveillance culture. It explores the approximation of production technology, image reproduction and devices such as surveillance cameras, that use image as a social way to control and to monitor. It begins from the perspective that this approximation exists not just because of its technological character, but also because of its conceptual character. It considers that both universes share the crucial position that image has had in the contemporaneous culture. This paper studies also the proliferation of surveillance devices within a social context where speeches against urban violence predominate. It understands images as imagetic jails and outdoors imprisonment where certain social subjects are considered more suspect that others. It also explores questions concerning image’s truth myth.