Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

When the eyes do not blink nor stop: from the operation-image to the rise to the flow 193 due to the strategies adopted by its participants . We refer to the recent episode of the circulation of audiovisual materials about a bombing that killed hundreds of people in Syria. The attack took place between February 19 and 20, 2018, in eastern Gh - outa, a rebel enclave in the surroundings of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Images of rescuing children from the wreckage of the city traveled the world and were widely inserted in national and international journalistic dispositifs. They highlighted child- hood and the imminence of its extinction. However, in addition to the social discussions emanating from the photographs, this article aims to strain the images that circulate. What images are in dispute? And when it comes to a struggle for meanings, what logics are perceptible in the performance of these actors? As an initial proposal, we identified three types of images at play that we chose to consider in this work as operation images; that is, they are images that do something, no longer contemplative, neither windows nor folding screens (FLUSSER, 2002). They are synthesis-images, residue-images, and circuit-images. The operation-images will be deepened throughout this work from the articulation with the empiric. I – Strains between access and excess Today, when we think about the images that surround us, the first sensation awakened is that of polyphony; that is, we have multiple voices that reverberate in various images from increasingly diverse sources. When we stop to blink, effectively, and in that fraction of a second inwhich our eyes move and close, we can perceive that there is an intensification of monophony. This is directly linked to the fact that access does not result in polyphony. Fausto Neto highlights that, in the current stage of mediatization, the issue of access must be seen more profoundly. According to him, the analytical perspective argues that [...] the question of access does, indeed, have pro- found implications on the forms of contact that the social fabric begins to develop, but it also under- stands that this dimension does not address the issue of meaning production. One thing concerns