EMPTY LIFES IN THE STATE OF EXCEPTION ESSAY ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Abstract
The objective of this essay is to demonstrate the empty life condition of Rio de Janeiro’s citizens, where is perceived the radicalization of the characteristics of the phenomenon named by Giorgio Agamben as state of exception, due to the legitimacy of state violence exercised outside legality. In this context, acts of resistance are the means to ensure the impunity of the public agents that exercise law enforcement. The text provides statistical data on police violence in Brazil and the state of Rio de Janeiro, besides, it explains Agamben’s categories of thought, interrelating them with fl uminenses’ reality. The study used the bibliographic research method with the use of books and periodicals, having as theoretical framework the philosophical ideas of the contemporary thinker Giorgio Agamben’s. It is concluded that Rio de Janeiro lives in an anomie situation in which the law has lost it’s force and the force is exercised outside the law, depriving citizens of their fundamental rights and guarantees.
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