Brasília meta-synthesis of the power with regard to control and articulation of the national territory

Abstract

Thinking over a country marked by a spatial ideology that identifies the nation’s territory on the core of a classist power exclusivity cries for cross-references on the paths taken by modernization, development and State. Thus, this study’s broadest scope corresponds to power with regard to territorial control and articulation, in a national scale; the character of the power analyzed is that of the Brazilian State and its spatial strategies. Hence, our objective is to analyze the construction of Brasília (the new administrative and political Capital) as a strategic material-symbolic expression of power aiming to control and articulate the national territory; this power is strengthened from 1956 on and still perpetuates. Methodologically speaking, four connected aspects must be considered: developmental Brazil and society’s demiurge State; President Juscelino Kubitschek’s Goal Planning (Plano de Metas) working as a proposal for a tentacular power having as meta-synthesis the city of Brasília; a synthetic cartography of the nation’s territorial control infrastructure; and the effective singularities of the Brazilian National State constitutive power. We shimmer the power of speech and actions aiming at a macro scalar spatial integration, which presents the binomial energy and transportation as an effective possibility of the Brazilian social integration, what contributes to the construction of this power’s paradox.