Geoprocessing as biopolitical practice in municipal government

Since 2005 photos of high resolution satellite imagery of the "google earth" allowed anyone to see their space city, neighborhood and home through the internet access. This technology is invested for at least 50 years in a type of processing that integrates aerial maps a network of organized information management for cities. The geoprocessing is a geographic information system that can be applied to municipalities to obtain global information infrastructure, health, education, sanitation and crime, allowing the construction and planning of public policies more effective. This dispositive biopolitical before the reference to Michel Foucault, was the object and method of analysis in a municipal government of Santa Catarina. Be the market information that is formed by unlimited data and increasethe accuracy of applications, or about agency practices for the regulation of populations and forms of subjectivity constituted by the management, monitoring and fine-government people, the geoprocessing as a resource of knowledge and power, to know and be able to govern the lives of individuals. This same path dissertational possible to generate intelligibility to evaluate possibilities of resistance to the device and see how this historically Geographic Information System can add the management of both territory and population.