STATE, VIOLENCE AND IMMUNIZATION: THE UTILITARIANISM OF DEATH IN RIO DE JANEIRO'S PUBLIC SECURITY

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the effects of public security exercised by the institutions that make up the Criminal Justice System. Using the reflections of Roberto Esposito on communitas/imunnitas, of the anthropologists Marcel Mauss on the gift, Mary Douglas on purity and danger, as well as Pierre Clastres on the archeology of violence, the text proposes an analysis whose objective is to understand the biopolitics today through ethnographic
information on the relationship between police, groups of criminals and residents of favela communities in Rio de Janeiro raised in the research of Luiz Antonio Machado da Silva. Epistemologically, the article is part of an effort to compose an analysis conducted in a certain approach inscribed in a symbolic materialism to deal with the state metaphor, from the unfolding of biological and legal knowledge that conform subjectivities and actions, revealing specific forms of sociability.