Abstract

Every year between 20 and 25,000 people ‘go missing’ in São Paulo state in Brazil. But in Brazilian law disappearance is just a fato atípico, an ‘atypical occurrence’. There is no causal relationship between act and violence to be legally found. Nor, it seems, is there a pursuit to know. In a region well recognised for political disappearance, I ask for a deeper and historicised consideration of how disappearance has worked politically, and why it might be acutely important at the current juncture where mass graves have a kind of axiomatic enigma. Doing so allows for a thorough disaggregation of how conditions of passive government and a lack of pursuit – letting disappear – shape the terrain of both extreme suffering and contemporary political ordering.

摘要

在巴西圣保罗州，每年有20至25,000人“失踪”。但是在巴西法律中，失踪只是一种“非典型事件”，是一种非常规现象。从法律上讲，行为与暴力之间没有因果关系。似乎也不存在需要了解的追求。在一个因政治失踪而广为人知的地区，我要求对失踪在政治上的运作方式以及为什么在目前具有集体公理之谜的当前关头显得尤为重要的问题进行更深入和历史化的考虑。这样做可以彻底分解被动政府的条件和缺乏追求-让其消失-如何塑造极端痛苦和当代政治秩序的格局。