%0 Journal Article %T The historical events and the recognition of the present %A Beatriz Marocco %A Angela Zamin %A Felipe Boff %J Verso e Reverso %D 2012 %I Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos %X This article aims to analyze the journalisticobjectivation of ˇ°great eventsˇ±. The concept ofˇ°evenementalizationˇ±, imagined by Foucault as acertain manner which Kant described an event ora set of events, against the historic ˇ°de-evenementalizationˇ±,give materiality to an action of presentrecognition that could appear in the journalistic coverageof a set of 18 periodicals of reference on thevictory of Obama to the presidency of the UnitedStates in 2008. %K eventalization %K polyhedron of intelligibility %K Obama %U http://www.unisinos.br/_diversos/revistas/ojs/index.php/versoereverso/article/view/ver.2012.26.62.04/1018