“Como assim, bala perdida? Um corpo caiu no chão”: massacre de Paraisópolis (2019), o sequestro do ônibus 2520 e a necropolítica no jornalismo televisivo brasileiro

Abstract

The present essay analyzes how the representations of Necropolitics in Brazilian television journalism, starting from the mediatization of police violence, compose and operate within a necropornographic logic, in which the pornification of death is observed, which, in our understanding, deals with a deeper relationship of the spectacularization of violence with biopower. Through the Theory of Social Representations, we seek to understand the production of discourses and meanings that cross television production. Aiming to investigate the process of death’s pornification, the research has as its source the journalism program Brasil Urgente, broadcast by Rede Bandeirantes de Televisão, focusing on well-known cases such as the Paraisópolis massacre and the kidnapping of bus 2520; both cases took place in the year 2019. The theoretical-methodological perspective that guides the work permeates the History of the Present Time and New Cultural History, as well as being close to other areas, such as Philosophy and Queer Theory, from which some of the fundamental concepts of the research derive.