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The Surveillance Capitalism concept explains the capitalist accumulation logic of large digital c... more The Surveillance Capitalism concept explains the capitalist accumulation logic of large digital companies in tracking internet users, extracting personal data and in changing behavior. This article aims to question the concept from a perspective that considers the participation of internet users in their own surveillance. The proposed new approach results from the conception of neoliberalism as the rationality of the contemporary capitalism that requires a new subjective order anchored in the production of a society formed by enterprise units involved constantly in the development of their human capital to compete in social relationships in all spheres of existence. Accordingly, it is believed that the online surveillance conducted by the large corporations and the expropriation of the human experience that results is only one part of the story. The other part is the perpetual search for individuals performance in relationships with others and with themselves.

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Este artigo apresenta os resultados parciais de uma pesquisa de doutorado em andamento sobre as r... more Este artigo apresenta os resultados parciais de uma pesquisa de doutorado em andamento sobre as relações entre as igrejas evangélicas das favelas e periferias da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e o neoliberalismo. O objetivo é conhecer o papel desempenhado por estas igrejas na governamentalidade neoliberal. Para tanto, a religião é interpretada como um fenômeno de legitimação do poder (Durkheim, Berger, Bourdieu e Weber) e o neoliberalismo como uma forma de governo dos indivíduos (Foucault e Dardot e Laval). O artigo utiliza-se ainda de alguns dados preliminares de uma etnografia que venho conduzindo na cidade do Rio de Janeiro e de dados secundários provenientes de outras publicações. Os resultados parciais indicam que algumas igrejas evangélicas são parte de um conjunto heterogêneo e articulado de governamentalidades que tenho chamado de dispositivo urbano neoliberal e que inclui modos de subjetivação, militarização, remoção de favelas, tráfico de drogas e milícias.

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Jun 24, 2016

This dissertation approaches the weakening of public spaces in the context of surveillance camera... more This dissertation approaches the weakening of public spaces in the context of surveillance camera use. This issue will be discussed based on surveillance performed through cameras in the municipality of Vila Velha, ES, Brazil. We start from the premise that we live surrounded by technological devices that constantly produce data on social subjects and their spaces, as a form of control. The cameras are the best known examples of these devices, even though they are presented in the public administration's discourse as tools to help ensure safety. The methodology employed was participant observation so as to follow the work performed "behind" the cameras. We concluded that various factors demystify this discourse: cameras that are not monitored; poor equipment maintenance; low salaries and poor labor conditions of operators; little or no interaction to other city government sectors; low credibility of this surveillance system within the police; etc. On the other hand, we carried out our study "in front of the cameras", observing the routine of three areas under camera surveillance in the neighborhoods of Praia da Costa, Glória e Riviera da Barra, and interviewing passersby, residents and business owners. Then we concluded that the surprising indifference in the way people deal with surveillance cameras is fed by the fact that the latter do not provide the safety intended. If the cameras do not assist in public safety, their use has the evil effect of weakening public spaces in Vila Velha since it poses potential and real threats to the underlying conditions in these spaces: plurality, liberty and individuality. Plurality and liberty, because surveillance cameras update a state of permanent monitoring. They feed the stigma about particular social groups, which are in turn targeted by surveillance, assigning the cameras the task of direct socio-spatial control about the spaces they monitor (a task that is recognized even by the citizens interviewed). And individuality, because that of citizens' is intentionally violated. Therefore, when surveillance cameras are intended to ensure quality of life to the population (providing safety), they have exactly the opposite effect.

Geografia em Questão, 2020

O presente texto propõe-se a afirmar a importância de Michel Foucault para a análise geográfica. ... more O presente texto propõe-se a afirmar a importância de Michel Foucault para a análise geográfica. À luz de uma releitura da periodização das formas de se exercer o poder na sociedade ocidental e de suas respectivas espacialidades estabelecida por Foucault, realiza-se um exercício de análise das formas com que as cidades brasileiras contemporâneas se organizam como resposta aos riscos e inseguranças. Busca-se, assim, observar em que medida aspectos da soberania, da disciplina e da biopolítica estão atualizados na atuação do Estado brasileiro e da iniciativa privada em diferentes frentes, tais como a atuação da polícia militar sobre os espaços habitados pelas pessoas mais pobres, a política de encarceramento em massa conduzida pelo Estado brasileiro, a expansão de condomínios fechados e a utilização de câmeras de vigilância em espaços públicos.

Sociologia & Antropologia, 2020

Foucault Studies, 2019

This article aims at introducing the relation between the use of CCTV systems in urban spaces and... more This article aims at introducing the relation between the use of CCTV systems in urban spaces and social control. More specifically, its purpose is to problematize and reaffirm the use of the theoretical background of the panopticon in order to interpret such a relation. In CCTV studies, as a consequence of literal interpretations, as well as the existence of a hegemony in ethnographic studies carried out in control rooms, the theoretical use of the panopticon is then questioned. In this article, based on an ethnographic study conducted in the public spaces surveilled by a CCTV system in a Brazilian city, it can be concluded that the effects of social control through surveillance are paradoxical. The indifferent way in which citizens deal with surveillance, or even the lack of awareness of it, imposes limits to the interpretation of the system as a tool of social control. Thus, the use of the panopticon becomes problematic. However, this research has shown how the presence of camera...

Geo UERJ, 2016