Banca de DEFESA: RAQUEL ASSUNÇÃO OLIVEIRA

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STUDENT : RAQUEL ASSUNÇÃO OLIVEIRA
DATE: 06/06/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Natal
TITLE:

The aestheticization of algorithmic surveillance: investigation based on the epistemic proposal of the image composter

KEY WORDS:

Aesthetics of surveillance; algorithmic surveillance; visibility; digital platforms.

PAGES: 160
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUBÁREA: Comunicação Visual
SUMMARY:

In this research, I investigated how regimes of visibility interfere with the construction of regimes of surveillance of bodies in contemporary times. I explored the ways in which digital platforms mobilize desires to collect behavioral surplus, a valuable product in the current capitalist culture of surveillance. To this end, it is through the thematic axes of visibility, surveillance, and body, that I engaged in dialogue with the theorizations of Fernanda Bruno, Gilles Deleuze, Giselle Beiguelman, Grada Kilomba, Jonathan Crary, Michel Foucault, and Paula Sibilia, among other authors. Based on the theoretical contributions of Georges Didi-Huberman's philosophy of image, as well as the Warburgian Atlas principle, I gathered a set of images from different temporalities and media that, when assembled on image boards, helped to think about the pairs of seeing and being seen and watching and being watched in articulation. In doing so, I experimented with the methodological approach of an “archaeology of visual knowledge” in the construction of what I initially called as Atlas Panoptes. I also presented the results of a semi-structured interview with the leadership of a collective that proposes resistance movements to distributed surveillance, from which three thematic nodes emerged: 1) Historical struggles; 2) Countercolonial worldviews; and 3) Thinking about images through opposition. These axes contributed to questioning of the methodological approach adopted, leading to the proposition of the metaphor of the composting process, instead of the constellation, for working with images, a choice that I argued was better suited to the particularities of multisensory experiences, the plural epistemes that emerge from the Global South, and the work with audiovisual images. Along the way, I adopted a critical view of what I conceptualized as an aestheticization of surveillance, or vigilantization of aesthetics, and the consequent invisibilities, hypervisibilities, and stereotypes that such a process contributes to fostering, in resonance with the propositions of Antônio Bispo dos Santos, Kate Crawford, Legacy Russell, Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Tarcízio Silva, and Walter Mignolo. Finally, I pointed to the relevance of the aesthetics of countersurveillance, technoresistances, bugs, and glitches, which operate as aesthetic, critical, and creative lines of escape from algorithmic surveillance, destabilizing its control mechanisms and exposing its opacities and fragilities.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3943432 - JOSENILDO SOARES BEZERRA
Interno - 2312564 - DANIEL RODRIGO MEIRINHO DE SOUZA
Interna - 6348127 - JOSIMEY COSTA DA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - ANELISE ANGELI DE CARLI
Externa à Instituição - KÉRLEY WINQUES - UFJF