["Invisibility" as a mirror of civilizational malaise: the rise of the homeless population and their fights for recognition in Brazil].

The rise in the population experiencing homelessness has become one of the defining social contradictions of our time. In Brazil, this increase persists even in the face of positive outcomes from economic and social assistance policies aimed at reducing poverty, underscoring the phenomenon's multicausal nature. The essay reconstructs the historicity of the dispositifs of normalization, governmentality, and counter-right, showing how bare life is actualized in territories where the state of exception operates as rule. Building on this foundation, it analyzes the multiple dimensions - economic, political, racial, security-related, and care-related - that converge in the growth of homelessness in Brazil, emphasizing the structural production of expropriation, precarization, and wounded subjectivities; while also highlighting the creative and political vitality of favelas and peripheral territories, the emergence of insurgent citizenships, and forms of territorial self-governance that challenge the neoliberal order. Finally, it proposes care, solidarity, and the commons as transformative horizons capable of reorienting the State toward a pedagogical and dialogical model grounded in radical democratization and in the reconstruction of social bonds based on justice, autonomy, and respect for human rights.