Starting with the ethnography of an event and based upon the theoretic-methodological referential of the Actor-Network Theory, the aim of this article is to come close to the subject of violence in the contemporaneity, in such a way that may grant visibility to the multiplicity and complexity which involves its discussion and the infinitude of the variables at stake. "Violence" is understood as an effect of networks made up of heterogenic elements, nature-culture hybrids, of humans and no humans, of the scientific, the political, the affective and the technological. In this way, "violence" doesn't configure itself as a starting point, but as an arrival, as a result of a process that involves mediators in its own making and that, beyond the practices considered to be violent, comprises the translations of the category, the inscriptions of those practices and the strategies of management and control.
violence; actor-network theory; ethnography; contemporaneity; public policies