Beiguelman, Giselle. 2021. Políticas da imagem: Vigilância e resistência na dadosfera. São Paulo: Ubu Editora.

Abstract

In Políticas da imagem: Vigilância e resistência na dadosfera (2021) Giselle Beiguelman observes different aspects of contemporary images that participate in the new aesthetic regimes of the image in the shareveillance. The six essays gathered here combine a refined repertoire of modern and contemporary works of art to address and substantiate the approach to fundamental characteristics of our images, such as the democratization of the possibility of recording, the new social aspects of the image, the transformations in the way of photographing and of creating images, the machinic processes of image generation and reading, the new proposed relationships with the past, the image aspects and developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, algorithmic modeling, deepfakes, memes. As a whole, they achieve a critical exposure of the roles and powers, democratic or (mais commonly) destructive, of images regarding us and the world.