Matrizes de sentidos coloniais - um estudo interseccional sobre a racialização da desinformação no Brasil: dos discursos fundadores às fake news

Abstract

This research deals with the relationship between misinformation, race, class and gender from the resumption of matrices of colonial meanings, from the founding discourses (Orlandi, 1993) about an imaginary Brazil, to fake news. I analyze the way in which disinformative discourses, a concept that I propose from the perspective of materialist Discourse Analysis, in their typological heterogeneity, simulate informing such categories in a universalist and eugenicist functioning. In dialogue with black, feminist, anti-racist and decolonial epistemologies, I start from the analysis of the thematic path of the discursive reference sequences “God, Homeland and Family”, to identify in the contemporary disinformative simulacrum the repeatability of constitutive meanings of the colonizing discourse, resignified in fake news. I propose the intersectional approach in order to demonstrate the ideological effectiveness of a disinformative discursive policy, crossed by the rise of the extreme right in Brazil. The centrality of the research is the way in which intersectionality, articulated with images of control (Collins, 2019), organizes spaces of power and inequality in disinformative discursivities. Disinformation thus produces what I call territories of effect that result in the objectification of racialized subjects, gendered and subalternized by class.