Image troops share the (no) geographical knowledge: contested power territories

Abstract

This text is configured in two movements of writing, seeking to point out several territories of power in the images, as well as several types that have been part of the exchange of knowledge in contemporary Brazil. The first broader movement is focused on two territories of power where images have been contested after sharing contents related to religion and sexuality; these contested territories are commented on from historical and current images, in connection with paintings, drawings and cartoons. The second movement is dedicated to a specific power territory, school geography, and accomplishes in writing in connection with photographs present in geography textbooks and with a photography that deviates from them in their functions and pretensions of power. The concepts of real image and troop of images by Fernand Deligny take effect in both writing movements. In the end, it is argued that betting on territories of power that emerge in the image also means betting the power that emerges from risk of non-recognition, that the power of the image also emerges in the act of letting oneself be led by what one does not see and is not known.