Horizontality, self-organization, networked politics... some of these terms give an account of the new kinds of mobilizations related to the so-called «#Occupy movements». They are kinds of protests and unstable social articulations to which governments don’t know how to respond and on which the opposition parties do not know how to capitalize. In this framework, it is not surprising that recent protests in Brazil surprised the government as the Partido dos Trabalhadores (pt) and the Right, after various years of improved social conditions. This article proposes some keys to the interpretation of networked politics.