Circulation of faces: from the magic formula to resistance 175 in McCurry and the images of activists and rescuers in Syria; they are constituting differentiated social practices that break with the authorized spaces of voice. In this sense, understand- ing circulation as a process of attributing value to interactions (and recognition conditions) allows us to think of tactics to create visibility conditions, even when denied a priori. In other words, by mobilizing circuits that value the face, perhaps, we can break away from magic formulas and forgotten faces and subjects. Hence the need for social learning on how to deal with the production/circulation of violence, its causes, and ways of being, not just its exposure. Journalism seems to result in the approach that highlights the cases, and the event, while the counter-agencement carried out by activist collectives shows us the possibility of avoiding violence through education, mo- bilization, and respect for others. The violence seen cyclically in new cases has its precedent, as it is already violence installed in practices and the social imaginary. How can the ethics of al- terity proposed by Lévinas help us not to stay at the edges of the account of the event but to elaborate events that break with these already ingrained forms of power? It is where the criti- cal reflection of the ethnic “cut” (in the case of urban conflicts in Brazil) or the “foreigner” (immigration conflicts and among peoples) comes in, not only as an observation but as the ex- ercise of looking at others as the other. It does not depend on what hegemonic journalism is doing since society develops its experiments. In this aspect, the counter-agencement men- tioned here can be a way of confronting discourses of violence from the flow of counter-images. We are facing a practice that is ethical but also political. References BOLTANSKI, Luc. Distant suffering. Cambridge, Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 1999. BRAGA, Jose Luiz. “Circuitos versus Campus”. In: JANOTTI JR, J.; MATTOS, M. A.; JACKS, N. Mediação& Midiatização. Salva- dor: EDUFBA, Brasília COMPOS, 2012. p.31-52.
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