Machine of facialities in basic education: mapping critical literature

Abstract

This cartography revised the academic literature that was supported on the concept of machine of facialities, with the aim of revealing how authors of scientific articles adopted this reference to analyze the dynamics of basic education in Brazil, that occurs in macrospace of regulations and other control codes or in the political microspace of school. This concept guides the reflection about the collective construction of meanings and subjectivities in society, because, according to its theorists, common convictions and desires are abstract strategies of the capitalist industry for human standardization and for its correlate, the exclusion, while the consensus attributes the validity. After a digital search of the literature in the Google Scholar database, we found 16 articles, published in scientific journals in Portuguese language, which studied the homogenization process operating in the territory of national education, but, above all, we detected, in these texts, political movements that lead to minor education advocated by Silvio Gallo, possible when collective actions developed at school have the strength to go against face-copy projects and to create other learning codes as they resist the impersonal prescription and attempts to castrate the right to think, to act and to be different.