Controle, flagrante e prazer: Regimes escópicos e atencionais da vigilância nas cidades

This paper examines scopic and attentional regimes that are present in surveillance systems and practices in contemporary cities. I intend to show that such regimes involve not only control procedures, but also pleasure circuits, updating the interplay between surveillance and spectacle in contemporary culture. Three fields of research will be prioritized: the incorporation of video surveillance in public and semi-public spaces, the production and distribution of amateur images, and the cartographic information systems of visualization of urban space.