Representações de ciência e tecnologia no anarquismo brasileiro contemporâneo e a ação direta

Abstract

The year of 2013 is marked by the rise of massive street demonstrations in Brazil, as well as the reappearance of anarchist ideology within the social movements, along with direct action. Different modalities of direct action were seen in the streets. This work aims to understand the relationships between the anarchist world representations and their mode of political practice and direct action. Our hypothesis is that the different forms of direct action, that are arranged in the different currents of the anarchism, reflect different representations of science and technology, present in this political movement, that range from deterministic to sociotechnical notions. To verify these elements, field surveys and interviews were conducted during the year of 2016 in the city of São Paulo, aiming to contemplate the different currents of anarchism. As a result of this research effort, we face an anarchism that has internal dissensions, but these are less important than its confluence points, thus, a standard of anarchist science and technology representation underlies the movement. In this sense, therefore, such research reinforces anarchism as a current that its own notions and perspectives, which are aligned with its principles, theory and practices.