Máquinas de visão algorítimicas : um estudo a partir da dronificação do poder policial no Brasil

Abstract

This work is about the increasingly frequent incorporation of Vision Machines (technologies that produce ways of seeing and partially capture the look) in our societies, as part of the power relations involved in Deleuzian control societies. To do so, I adopt Paul Virilio's theory of vision machines to expose how such devices are used in the translation of reality through images, reducing human experiences to the mathematical code (algorithm) and the formalization of rationality as a privileged source of production of the Real. My principal argument is that it is not possible to translate life through calculus and the languages that take it as an exact science – there is something more complex and irreducible. As it is a work produced in the field of Criminal Sciences, in order to analyze violence in its broadest sense, I use as a case of analyzing the use of drones by the police (a process called dronification), seeking to understand what this can mean in terms of aggravation of the violence exercised by the police, responsible for sustaining, through pacification and violence, a certain form of world production, according to capitalist molds. Above all, I sought to understand the effects of the dronification of the military police in the Brazilian context, given that it is an institution that holds the monopoly of violence, especially considering our democracy founded and operated by the continued massacre of certain populations. To carry out the empirical research, the method of collecting information was used through the tools provided by the Law on Access to Information. It was possible to assess the incipient process of dronification of the ostensive Brazilian police forces, which can lead to the invulnerability of the police.