ABSTRACT

It is common to understand mass demonstrations, like those belonging to the new cycle of contentious politics, as disruptive political events. However, there is no consensus on how to define what political events are, let alone how to investigate them. Most frequently, events are romanticized and understood as great ruptures, which makes the concept problematic as a means to investigate these new political phenomena. In this article, through the systematisation of Deleuze's philosophy of the event, I advance a theoretical approach that enables us to analyse and map the complexity of political events like mass protests. To demonstrate the potential of this approach, I elaborate a cartography of the Brazilian protests in 2013.

摘要

人们通常将大规模示威，例如属于有争议的政治新周期的示威，理解为破坏性的政治事件。然而，对于如何定义政治事件，并没有达成共识，更不用说如何对其进行调查了。大多数情况下，事件被浪漫化并被理解为巨大的破裂，这使得这个概念作为研究这些新政治现象的手段存在问题。在本文中，通过对德勒兹事件哲学的系统化，我提出了一种理论方法，使我们能够分析和描绘大规模抗议等政治事件的复杂性。为了展示这种方法的潜力，我详细绘制了 2013 年巴西抗议活动的地图。