Re: <nettime> Brazil: staring into the abyss

Thanks Felix for sharing your attentive impressions here.

Surely Patrice, "it's not looking good at all indeed" as it is also an aesthetical issue, so it is getting uglier and it might be worse. The lack of near-future-perspective related to some basic agenda on social justice, human rights, public life participation, homeless supportive programs, ecological policies, indigenous rights, gender issues, etc and etc, is something appalling, a scenario that most of us are already facing now, even before Bolsonaro inaugurates his govern -- since the already existent far-right mood/agenda was just expecting to be legitimated to start the horror show. Yes Rafael, the absentee rate this time did not change that much compared to other federal elections and this is ugly too. And yes, Glenn Greenwald knows Brazil as an insider and he has been reporting the mess quite closely - and he might be one of those worth to follow for the non-portuguuese speaking community.

Being an artist, a teacher, or a left-wing media person - an not to say an activist - seems to be the worst position one may have in the upcoming months.

We would need a sort of efficient antidote for the mess produced by Steve Bannon's "blipverts" on social media (just remembered the 80's Max Headroom here!). So thanks again Felix for witnessing some of our situations along your ten days here. The spread of such report might be valuable for some of us to be fully understood in any possible issue in the uncertain future we have.

Best

Lucas Bambozzi

Em ter, 13 de nov de 2018 às 13:53, Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl> escreveu:

On 2018-11-13 16:42, Rafael Evangelista wrote:
> just to say that the absentee rate is not too far from the historical
> trend for federal elections, but I agree with the rest of the
> description 100%.
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 9:47 AM Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I just spent ten days in the city and region of Sao Paulo, talking
>> mainly to artists, academics, activist associated with
>> right-to-the-city
>> and indigenous movements. This is the limited impression I got from
>> this. Please correct, add, deepen it with more substantial
>> information
>> and knowledge.

A good source of info (immo) is Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept:

https://theintercept.com/greenwald/

There was also an interesting article/analysis in this month's Le Monde
Diplomatique (Bolsanaro was then on the verge of being elected)

A quote from a middle class lady illustrated perfectly the angst of the
bourgoisie to be overrun by the great unwashed empowered by years of PT
government. (from memory):

"you know, taking a plane (on a domestic flight) used to be a clubby
experience. But today 'these people' can afford the airfare and so we're
now forced to queue together with the riff raf".

It's not looking good at all indeed.
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