Nos tempos da repressão

Abstract

This article aims to identify the Security and Information Advisory (ASI), a body created during the Civil-Military Regime in Brazil to inspect university campuses, according to the concepts presented by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben about the device and the power relations established through it. At first, the state of knowledge was made to identify the object's adherence in the research field. Soon after, reflecting in a broad context, the process of the civil-military coup and its impacts on education are resumed through the legal enterprises made possible by it. Then, an overview was presented about the historical context of the selected period and the power performed by the military within the universities in this same section. By relating the authors and the bibliography referring to the field of history, the identification of ASI as a device used by the military is confirmed. As advisory the device responsible for maintaining order within universities while the military remained in power.