Secondary students’ insurgency scenes and figurations:

Aesthetic and political potency of their dispositional arrangements

Abstract

This article is a reflection on the aesthetic potential of the dispositional arrangements that constitute
the insurgency’s scenes of the secondary school students’ movement, that occupied the streets and
schools in São Paulo in 2015. The proposal is to think about the aesthetic fabulation of the movement
in street protests, looking at the students' own creations, through performances, posters and
interventions. These reflections start from the dialogue between Foucault, Rancière and Deleuze on
the formation of the political subject in resistance. The text bets on the potential of the aesthetic
experience for the political emancipation of the subject, as well as the power of the creations that
involve bricolage and the urgencies of resistance. He also points to the construction of the insurgent
scene through the dispositional arrangements that it provokes, also paying attention to the
vulnerabilities of the subjects involved.