Communication and midiatization between gods and men 315 a lecture given in Brazil in 2005, the term device obeys the description necessary to define the compromise that is established between tactics and strategy, with the aim of achieving some objective of a technological nature; it is therefore an action of a military nature, developed in accordance with a plan. If Foucault is responsible for the methodological proposition of the descrip- tion of action, resulting from the application of tactics and strategies, Agamben emphasizes, above all, the military dimension, common to the adoption of tactics and strategies to achieve an action. If Foucault proposes the methodological dimension of a device, seeking to highlight the origins of tactics and strategies, Agamben proposes that they present an intentionality, underly- ing any device and defines: Generalizing later the already quite broad class of Foucauldian devices, I will call a device anything that has, in some way, the capacity to capture, guide, determine, intercept, model, control, and secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, and dis- courses of living beings (Agamben, 2009, p. 40). In this definition, one can observe that a device uses tactics and strategies practically and pragmatically, to produce a consequence. In this sense, and as a communication/information technology, media devices appropriate tactics and strategies to capture, shape, and control. All media is, therefore, a strategy of power that is exercised over someone, some reality, or state of things: power is something that operates through discourse since discourse itself is an element of a strategic device of power relations (Foucault, 2010, p. 253). Going beyond the verbal dimension implied by the word “discourse,” but according to the meaning of the previous quote and continuing what we intend to study, the media is power exercised through a strategic device. But what is the purpose of the media? What does it aim to achieve? Is it truly a power, or is it a power that is exercised based on a consensus between the subjects who send and receive communication/information? Is it a power that seeks to establish rather than capture and con- trol a consented consensus?
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