"Olha eu aqui de novo!" ("Look at Me Here Again!")

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The acts that took the streets of Brazil from June 2013 are materialized in this book by Beatriz Provasi, based on accounts and images from the Rio de Janeiro experience, from an aesthetic and political perspective. As an artist, activist, and researcher, Provasi traverses the streets of Rio de Janeiro during moments of intensity from 2013 to 2016, leaving her traces in the city. As an extension of her doctoral research in Literature, Culture, and Contemporaneity (PUC-Rio, 2018), the text takes the form of diaries and articulates a vast universe of cultural references. The narrative suggests both the centrality of the body and presence, as well as the polyphony and multiplicity of the streets. The author does not aim to explain the events or fix them in history, but through storytelling, uses the events as a source for reflective writing on the world, culture, art, politics, urban life, and contemporaneity. The focus lies primarily on the production of presence and the creation of temporary autonomous zones. 2013 has not ended. However, it does not continue. Spoiler alert: the author categorically opposes simplistic readings that position 2013 as a precursor to the 2016 coup. Instead, attention is drawn to its inexorable openness, which does not allow for conclusions. Therefore, the book itself remains unfinished. It is a meticulous study but also a poetic essay that seeks to capture what the author considers the inexhaustible poetry of 2013. 2013 was a significant movement of city occupation, redefining spaces and lives. And like those protesters who always returned after police attacks singing "Look at me here again!", there is something that always comes back, that does not surrender to imposed dispersion and insists on mocking dancing. The book is this dance.