Body politic, implication, representation: a study of Reinaldo Azevedo’s blog about the black bloc case

Yamamoto, Eduardo Yuji

doi:10.1590/1809-5844201911

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Article • Intercom, Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Comun. 42 (1) • Jan-Apr 2019 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-5844201911 copy

Body politic, implication, representation: a study of Reinaldo Azevedo’s blog about the black bloc case

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Abstract

The text presents theoretical and conceptual elements that seek to understand a dimension of the current power structure evidenced by the insurgency of social forms that aim at new compositions. In a second moment, it observes the importance of the device of representation (especially the media) to constitute discourses that intensify or decelerate that social forms. Then, a content analysis is performed on the blog of Reinaldo Azevedo (veja.com) to organize the statements of the text from their regularities and to observe the discursive operations in the representation of black bloc protests, recently known by the Brazilian public. The text concludes that the discourse of the blog obstructs the advent of a political body.

Keywords
Biopolitics; Biopower; Digital Media; Device of Analysis; Content Analysis

	CATEGORIAS	STATEMENTS (NO. OF REPETITIONS)
Hypothesis A	A1 Intensification of fear	banditry / the depredation promoted by the black blocs / the destroy-at-all-costs of the black blocs / they contributed to the disorder / masked groups lynched the police in Rio and burned the downtown / they set fire / acts of vandalism and there is nothing the Justice can do to prevent the attacks / I am so afraid of what can happen during the World Cup / practiced an assassination attempt against the Colonel of Military Police / It is really a very difficult situation / acts of violence and vandalism / terrorist acts / riot / it was supposed to kill anyone / social terrorism / promotes the violence, the chaos and the death / to take the lead in scenes of depredation and vandalism / degenerate into turmoil and confusion / reached the extreme of causing the death of the cameraman Santiago Andrade / decided to beat up the suspect / The deliberate, declared, explicit intention is to provoke chaos in cities / they organized themselves to commit crimes / ability of causing deaths / goal was to plan new fire-setting to buses in São Paulo / killed cameraman Santiago Andrade / It [Santiago Andrade’s death] was criminally planned / this death [Santiago] was carefully planned / planned to commit crimes / were involved in violent acts at demonstrations / have ability to cause death, diverse body injury, as well as patrimonial damages and to the environment / promote riot, to beat up good and honest people, to throw out the street who wants to make a legitimate, peaceful protest / promote disorder /
Hypothesis A	A2 Restitution of existing normativities	the mess and the certainty of impunity / To break the city is a crime / the increase of the penalty for crime of damage to property and one aggravating in the case of aggression to police officers / repress the rioters / It is the black blocs that remain unpunished / the country has no laws that can keep these fascistoids in jail / the outlaws will continue to benefit from this legal vacuum / When they realize they can go to jail, the movement cools / Why is the depredation practiced by black blocs not punished? / The big problem is the legislation / Is there any other law that can be applied? / If everyone who participated in the beating were arrested, they would answer for attempted murder / When one of them goes to prison, the movement cools / all democracy needs order to exist / If there had been an immediate repression, they would have stopped / If the bandit is not segregated from society, he will continue to commit crimes / What is the profile of those who act as black blocs in the protests? / both had the prison decreed also for criminal incitement (Article 286), criminal association (Article 288), resistance (Article 329) and disobedience (art. 330) / kingdoms of inefficiency /
Hypothesis B	B1 What is next	[Black Blocs] Are young people going along for the ride created on the internet, that get together in social networks to combine destroy-at-all-costs and violent acts against the opposing supporters / Does the action of the black blocs have political bias? To me, it seems a criminal bias, something like the story of the group of friends who decided to set fire to an indigenous person / The majority of the identified ones are young men with fixed job and residence, without involvement in the crime. But the investigation detected also several infiltrated bandits that went to demonstrations to steal /
Hypothesis B	B2 Personification of what is next	[PT government] flirts with the mess / the State Government does not want this [to apply laws], it will demonstrate interference / All they want is a [sic] “signature” in the disorder / [PT] origin of the financing of the street disorder / IT IS CURRENT PRACTICE IN THE PT TO FINANCE SUCH SOCIAL MOVEMENTS / tactic obviously of the mafia / union among black blocs and PCC / the PCC collaboration / accumulates an extensive criminal record / involvement with pedophilia / declaredly a left-wing group (and we know how socialist countries were real kingdoms of justice) have very particular notions of law / their arrival at the Red Square, in Moscow / Islamic State / It is evident that they have always served the left wing / Free Fare Movement /
Hypothesis C	C1 Qualification of what is next	troublemakers / masked group / Vandal (2) / fascistoids / outlaws / masked group caught in acts of vandalism / crowd / armed gang (3) / bandits (5) / miserable / rowdies / bandits disguised as dreamers / a horde of communist fascistoids / brutes / The little angel / a saint / vagabonds that promote riot / disgusting fascists / murderers of the cameraman Santiago Andrade / stupidity, cowardice, and prevarication / delinquents (4) / cowards / the group forms an armed gang / ridiculous / pathetic / authoritarian / swindler / fart / brucutus in black / criminals (2) / pusillanimity / masked bandits (2) / supporters of the PCC tactic / criminal organization / rioters arrested (2) /
Hypothesis C	C2 Dichotomization	Almost the totality of the population repudiate violence / [confrontations] between masked bandits and PMs (military police) / The only forced legitimated by democracy is the police; the other side is banditry / the Constitution of 1988 ensures all rights to the criminal, but for the good and honest citizen, not so many / it was a worker, who was there bringing home the bagels, and not one of the vagabonds who promote the riot /

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[1] Eduardo Yuji Yamamoto

Professor and researcher in the Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (Unicentro). Doctor in Communication by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), with PhD in Philosophy by the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS, Pisa). Leader and coordinator of the Laboratory of Communication and Biopolitics Studies (LABBIO/CNPq). Author of the “A depressão de Lars” (The depression of Lars, 2016) and “Comunidade e Comunicação I – a crise do comum” (Community and Communication I – the crisis of the common, 2017). E-mail yujieduardo@gmail.com.