Long term abscence and the abscent Presence as disaccountability

Some appointments on historical temporality of the Military in the New Republic

Abstract

This article analyzes the emergence of different temporalities and political languages with the return of the military to politic scene. It starts from the premise that, since the Amnesty Law and the Constitution of 1988, since their privileges
and immunities are assured, they have established efficient mechanisms for regulating their presence / absence from the political scene. During the New Republic (1985- ), there was a regime of low-intensity action until the 2016 coup and the 2018 elections, when the High Command and the Higher-ranks reassumed political leadership. This high exposure demanded from the military new ways of producing theirrepresentation, exposing temporalities, agency and categories from an universe that, given its ubiquity, challenge the ordinary perception of history. This context of crisis (2016-2022) impelled us to analyze the mobilization of these mechanisms of presence / absence of public perception as forms of political disaccountability of the military throughout recent history.