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VONTADES DE VERDADE DE “OBJETIVIDADE” NA DIMENSÃO DA DEVASTAÇÃO AMAZÔNICA EM DISCURSOS MIDIÁTICOS DIGITAIS

Abstract

This article discusses environmental issues by analyzing digital media discourses that address the devastation of the Amazon and indicate the “size” of this scourge, given the desire for truth implied in contemporary media discourses. It focuses on the senses of “objectivity” insinuated in the media discourse of the BBC News and (o)Eco websites that seek to point out the scale of the devastation in the Brazilian Amazon. The research is anchored in Michel Foucault’s (2005, 2008, 2012, 2019) postulations, paying attention to different theoretical-conceptual categories, such as: discursive formation and discursive practice, biopolitics and governmentality, tools that enable an archeogenealogical reading gesture (Navarro, 2020) based on a descriptive-interpretative methodology. It is accepted that, by acting this way, it is possible to think of an (eco)governmentality in the face of the environmental government of the planet (Veiga-Neto, 2017; Passetii, 2013). Therefore, the relevance of the Brazilian Amazon stands out as a sign in media debates that forge desires for truth, since these help to constitute these discourses. In terms of suggestions for discussion, the article concludes that the presentation of the size of the scourge that is the deforestation in the Amazon, in the online media, was made prominently by the strategy of measuring, comparing, quantifying in percentages and displaying comparative series of months, years, according to the desires for truth and objectivity claimed by this discursive functioning.