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Streetnotes, Volume 25 (2016)

A privileged center for the sign, the media, and the code, the city is the place par excellence for visual consumption, providing a sense of simultaneity and global interconnectedness. This is particularly clear in times of mega-events (The World Soccer Cup, The Olympic Games, The World Youth Day), when host cities receive an extraordinary influx of foreign visitors and enter in a hyper-mediated trance with the spotlights of all the TV cameras of the world. In preparation for the 2014 and 2016 mega-events, the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has experienced a permanent shock of agenda, characterized by important, accelerated, urban renewal projects accompanied by population removal and slums pacification. With the official assertion of Rio as a global city for sports and other mega-events comes a hegemonic will to blend festive public space with advertising. Based on the works of Sharon Zukin and David Harvey on visual consumption and social control, I question the production of such model of the “festive” city. In Rio de Janeiro, non-stop partying provides a convenient escape from conflict, protest, and dissent.

 

    Cover page: A Festive Surveillance: Mega-Events in Rio de Janeiro
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    Streetnotes, Volume 22 (2014)
    This essay is a reflection on images, memory and movement in Rio de Janeiro’s railway space, inspired by the itinerant play based on Homer’s Odyssey In_Transit: Urban Odysseys, by the theater company Cia Marginal, staged in suburban trains leaving from Rio de Janeiro’s Central do Brasil station. The article explores the various devices staged in the show (protective goggles, memory helmets, headphones for images,…), and their relationship with the suburban space and the experience of displacement.  Da Central para o mundo: um diana vida em trânsito   Resumo:Este ensaio é uma reflexão sobre imagens, memóriae movimento no espaço ferroviário do Rio de Janeiro, inspirada pelo espectáculoitinerante In_Trânsito - Odisseias Urbanas, dogrupo teatral Cia Marginal. Mais particularmente, o artigo explora aexperiência de deslocamento no espaço suburbano carioca, em relação com osdispositivos de mediação encenados durante o espectáculo: óculos de proteção, capacetes de memória, escutadores de imagens.Estranhos, esses dispositivos parecem funcionar como instrumentos dedistanciamento, questionamento, e metaforização de uma realidade cotidianavivida por milhares de usuários das linhas ferroviárias do Rio de Janeiro. Palavras-chave:Espaço suburbano; Imagens; In_Trânsito- Odisseias Urbanas (Cia Marginal);Memória; Movimento; Rio de Janeiro
      Cover page: From Central to the World: A Day in the Life in Transit
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      Streetnotes, Volume 25 (2016)
        Cover page: Introduction: Between Spectacle and Resistance Some Thoughts on Public Space Today
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