In 2013 Brazilians took to the streets in a series of demonstrations against federal and local governments that lasted until the presidential elections in October 2018. This engagement disrupted the usual political temporality of the election cycle, extending its ritual logic to years of dispute. This article asks what happens when a ‘political ritual’ does not find its closure and the liminal temporality of the ‘political season’ escalates into a left versus right polarisation. It concludes that there are two outcomes: the imagined collective self-perception of the nation shifts and the state of exception is regarded as an exemplary way out of conflict, reiterating the authoritarian tradition.

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没有封闭的政治仪式：巴西街头示威的连环阈限和冲突升级

2013 年，巴西人走上街头反对联邦和地方政府的一系列示威活动一直持续到 2018 年 10 月的总统选举。这种参与扰乱了选举周期通常的政治临时性，将其仪式逻辑延伸到多年的争议中。这篇文章询问当“政治仪式”没有结束并且“政治季节”的临界时间性升级为左右两极分化时会发生什么。它的结论是有两种结果：想象中的民族集体自我认知发生转变，例外状态被视为摆脱冲突的典范方式，重申了威权主义传统。