Imagens incendiárias: entendendo a crise político-ambiental de 2020 no Brasil sob a perspectiva dos memes

Abstract: In recent years, Brazil has been highlighted because of the high number of news about burning and fires in the national biomes. However, in a different way, the countless sources of information and the huge circulation of images, instead of informe, has deforming our opinions about this subject. From this question, this paper pretends to analyze the ecosystem of images about fire and burnings in Brazil, based on the news and memes that was founded on the internet during the year of 2020. In addition to compiling journalistic news about political and environmental themes, the paper discusses, particularly, the power of synthesis present in the memes, based on two arrangements of images taken from profiles that makes opposition or give support to the Brazilian government on the Instagram platform (Mídia NINJA and Direita da Opressão), which were based on the Warburgian methodology of the Atlas Mnemosyne. Besides stimulating the debate about the environmental and political crises in social networks, in the last two years, the memes about fire, burning and fires facilitated the understanding of this subject among different types of public in Brazil.