The Transamazônica highway is 50 years old. By delimiting this period, the text
exposes to interested readings five possible parties of its history. Certain that a reliable
portrait of its trajectory is infactible in History studies, we assume the deliberate selection
of episodes found in consulted sources and documents, so that we could somehow
represent the countless faces of such an object. We started with the prefix “trans” as a device
for interpreting the word “transamazônica”. When determining such a prefix as an
enhancer of meanings, we can identify other qualities and understandings for this road
than just a transport infrastructure. The Transamazônica highway is, above all, an action,
surrounded by innumerable attributes: is to transfigure by symbologies, it is to go through
scales, it is to transform by technification, it is to show through utopian landscapes, it is
upsetting by the invisible. They are portraits of a highway that the forest, in its own way,
managed to tame. But until when?
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