The Right Hand of the Most High

O sagrado e a extrema direita em imagens da intentona bolsonarista no Brasil

Abstract

The objective of this work is to study the political-religious communication that composes the Brazilian far-right populism in contemporary times. Based on the images of the Bolsonarist attempt of January 8, 2023, which circulated on the internet and made up the journalistic coverage of the time, we argue that this event demonstrated the use of faith and the sacred as tools of communication and political propaganda, which sealed ruptures with democratic values. A plot made from the capture of religious discourse and its imbrication with Bolsonaro's militancy. The analysis of the images is conducted based on the actor-network theory (ART) and on Simondon's ([1954] 1992) technoaesthetics studies, which allow us to identify in these events that took place in Brasilia, a civic-religious arrangement that divides Brazil and that exalts "the Christian" as an ultranationalist hero, a "good citizen", a soldier at war against evil.  often identified as the communists and the left.