Mediatization, polarization, and intolerance (between environments, media, and circulation)

177 Image in circulation: shattering of the gaze and memory Ana Paula da Rosa 1 Abstract: This work adopts as its starting point the assumption that media images carry previous images, fruit of discourses and other temporalities, but that become present as shadows in our current productions. Based on this consideration, this article proposes to analyze two dynamics of conflict, understood here as dynamics of mediatization, which are quite different in terms of process and logics, but which involve common elements: a) media images and imaginary; b) broad circulation; c) social ac- tors and media institutions and, finally, d) the logics of image management in terms of control/power. Our gaze falls, precisely, on the agency logics of image in terms of power, considering that our empirical object is constituted by two events separated in time and space, but united by the presence of the child as a vic- tim, by forms of intolerance and aspects of incivility evidenced in interactive games, including the right to visibility. As an im- age that shatters the eye, we summon the photograph of Aylan Kurdi. In analogy, we deal with the image of “memory shatter- ing”, bringing to the scene the photograph of the boy Marcos Vinicius, a student murdered at favela da Maré in Rio de Janeiro, in 2018. Among the loneliness of the dying (ELIAS, 2001), the life that does not deserve to live (AGAMBEN, 2010), and the “un- grievable life” (BUTLER, 2017), we propose to discuss the image in circulation and its impact on memory based on the theme of power and death, from the perspective of the condition of vis- ibility, understanding that, given the mediatization of conflicts 1 Adjunct Professor at PPGCC-UNISINOS. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001- 7461-2278. E-mail: anaros@unisinos.br