Produção de sentido em documentos e informações de arquivos sigilosos: comunidade de informação e contrainformação sob o olhar da Assessoria de Segurança e Informação – ASI UFF de 1971 - 1982

Abstract

This paper aims to understand how the State exercises power through social codes, standardization of documents and information, the production of meaning of records of confidential files in the Information and Counter-Information System in the Civil-Military Dictatorship, in a cut between 1971 and 1982, under the guidance of the Security and Information Office (ASI), Federal Fluminense University – UFF. It was also sought to understand the narratives and discourses of the communities involved and the official discourse, are affected by the functions of control and information surveillance, particularly in discretionary and totalitarian periods. It is problematic that the production of meaning or semantics is not a subject much reflected or discussed in the Archivology, the questions of information representation are more evident in the Organization of Knowledge, associated with Information Science. This production of meaning can lead to the context behind the text, the expansion of studies on documentary typology, language, narratives and information used in federal public universities at the time, its actors, the existing regulations, pointing out, in the historiography of the Present, the constructions of memories, the field of disputes of individual and collective memories and presently their (re) – signification. There was an “info-communicational war” between the production of speeches and narratives of students and government agencies. As for the theoretical-methodological aspects, currents of thought are observed in the Archives and Information Science on the production of meaning; The concept of document and information and its various aspects in Information Science and Archives, the genesis of the documentary process, and the materiality of the document and information. As for the empirical methodological aspect of research, Understanding of the context of confidential files, with the SNI Information Manual, the Rules for Safeguarding Confidential Affairs, the Manual of Administrative Procedures of the Security and Information Office (ASI), seeking the functions, activities and acts, organicity and archival link. In a second moment, it was made use of the Documentary Typology, of the identification of documents, searching for the subjects in line with the concept of relevance. As a sampling of the information system, the series of documents of the Central Directory of Students (DCE) was used in the documentary fund of (ASI), UFF; Which was subordinated to the Security and Information Division (DSI) of the Ministry of Education (MEC), in the network of documents and information produced and received at the National Information Service (SNI) and the National Information System (SISNI). It was found that there was a culture of secrecy. A documentary culture has been created to produce documents and senses, techniques and documents and information processing, involving functions, activities and acts, which leads to thinking about a specific and specialized culture of SISNI and SNI; Which promoted the discourse through registration and the uniformity of thinking of the information and counter-information community. It is considered that the memory and (re) production of meaning in the archives is done through the materiality of social codes, and the elaboration of documents and information.