Circulation of faces: from the magic formula to resistance 171 dent is the face that anticipates the judgment of its existence. Syrian, Honduran or Turkish children illustrate events; children from the favela of Rio de Janeiro illuminate a continuum. Given this, counter-agencement emerges, what is an act of unrecognized subjects immersed in the pain of their invis- ibility that counter-agency the communication flow. Differently or in addition to Carlón’s idea (2017) of analytical dispositif, it is not just about ascending and descending movements but es- sentially the disconnection from hegemonic media. Social actors such as Bruna da Silva, Marcus Vinicius’s mother, created, along with other mothers of victims, a network of militancy move- ments against the power to make people forget. For this, communication materials, campaigns, protests, walks that use the logic of mediatization are developed to keep the memory and image of these children alive. In an inter- view to Época magazine (2020), Bruna highlights that the “dead have a voice.” Her counter-agencement actions started when she noticed the circulation of fake news about Marcus Vinicius. The double death, by the police and the non-circulation of his image, made those tentative communication actions to be designed for circulation. It is the performance of social actors who do not simply seek to ascend to the media, nor depart from the media for their communities; on the contrary, they create other, alter- native and experimental actions that do not intend for hegemon- ic media but are, in themselves, forms of counter-agencement circulation and make conditions of visibility possible, even when such conditions are not given. It includes developing experi- ments and articulations that even impact the State. One of the counter-agencement actions is the proposal of a bill named after Marcus Vinicius that creates mechanisms to reduce lethal violence against children, adolescents, and young people. The project was filed in 2019, and despite hav- ing been attached to the guidelines to combat violence in Rio de Janeiro, Bruna continues to develop a network of actions with other mothers, ranging from political pressure to mobiliza- tion in the streets. Despite the strains on social media, via com- ments, around a “victim position” on the part of Marcus Vinicius’ mother, her struggle has been for a synthesis-image of a face. This struggle, however, is not hers alone, the Redes da Maré
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