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This essay provides an overview of the relationship between surveillance, individuals, and reality. To do this, I use a multilevel perspective that connects power (from agency to structure) to social systems theory. This novel approach means taking a holistic view on how individuals are managed beyond ideas of resistance and technology. At the agency level, individuals are constrained by continuous interactions through digital and behavioral exploitation. In the second meso-level, individuals attach to an informational system that renders, sorts, and distorts data fragments that resemble their ontology. Finally, at the structural level, more than being fragmented subjects, I argue that individuals and data constitute a new hermeneutic cycle in which reality itself is redefined in an autopoietic reading of things distanced from subjects and knowledge.

Evil doing is part of everyday social life and is extremely difficult to be counter-balanced by "good"practices, let alone to be eliminated. Even in the realm of abstract politics, there is no simple solution or way to understand their overlapping nature. In that sense, this study explores the relationship between both sides through aesthetics and constructs a dialogical analysis transposed to politics. This relationship shows that beautiful and disgusting politics are not simply two sides of the same coin. The former has a limited potential to counterbalance the latter and, paradoxically, without its counter-part it has a limited potential to promote social transformations.

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar cómo la militarización y el legalismo de las policías brasileñas afecta el rol de estas instituciones en la gestión de la criminalidad de Brasil. Esta característica doble del sistema brasileño mantendría una funcionalidad que regula, de forma cualitativa, la proporcionalidad del uso de la fuerza y la capacidad de procesar delitos ante la Justicia. Se verifica cómo esas estructuras se mantuvieron desde el inicio de la Nueva República, y se concluye que la militarización y el legalismo de los cuerpos de seguridad policial siguen imprimiendo los límites de la acción gubernamental mientras se amplifican salidas individualistas y conservacionistas como horizontes meta-políticos para tratar la criminalidad.