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This essay proposes a reading of the Chilean October by questioning the politicization of time, both as the object of the struggles, protest strategy and conservative counter-offensive. The objective is to understand what is at stake in social conflict, as “chronopolitical battles” between temporalities of order (continuity) and temporalities of transformation (the seeds of a discontinuity that opens up another future). It is argued that it is essential to problematize the current relationship to time, specifically the acceleration of life and the social (de)synchronizations that it implies, as well as the place and sense of the future in the current political conflict. In order to apprehend the chronopolitical battles inherent to these social mobilizations, the contribution of the approach is first proposed, before circumscribing the temporal keys of the demands. Next, the social conflict is analysed as battles of temporalities, based on the concept of momentum. Finally, the question of the social reappropriation of the future is summarized.

The aim of this text is to show the socio-political relevance of the writing with which the Chilean social outbreak of October 2019 began: “Evade!”. Using the tools of the anthropology of writing, I analyze the main textual features of this brief writing, as well as its conditions of appearance and propagation in the city, in order to characterize its pragmatic potential. The analysis allows us to understand the profound adequacy of this writing to the operating modalities of contemporary Chilean neoliberalism, but also its capacity to suggest clues to understand the conditions for emergence of a new political sensibility.

This article is part of the theoretical reflection supported by the evidence accumulated by more than 20 years of experience and research in the field of Youth Studies in recent Chile. The basic objective of the article is to present the preliminary work of contextualization of the 18-O social outbreak, the bibliographic discussion and the provisional working hypotheses, putting into perspective what happened in the framework of the so-called social outbreak in Chile, particularly from what we call the Generational implications put into play in this event. The methodology responds to what is known in the social sciences as Multimethod, which includes a variety of techniques to collect data ranging from the application of in-depth interviews, participant observation, press review, and critical analysis of literature. The main results of this theoretical discussion that we present here raise a phenomenon of political re-politicization that has been gradually and progressively forging in Chile, particularly visible since the beginning of the 21st century. In addition to the above, the emergence of a new generational political subjectivity for the current social and political scenario is postulated.

During the social mobilizations that took place in Chile, Colombia and many other countries in the world before and after December 2019, the participants displayed new symbols of struggle that could be interpreted as a shift in political imagery. Among these powerful images, instead of the hammer and sickle, it is necessary to highlight several references to a globalized popular culture that the youth were able to recover, divert or transcend —for example The Joker, V for Vendetta, La Casa de Papel, and, of course, Star Wars—. Taking into account the economic empire represented by the saga created by George Lucas in 1977 and managed since 2012 by the Walt Disney Company, it may seem paradoxical to proclaim that this galaxy not far away is a war song against contemporary capitalism. However, in the books, comics or video games that are added to the well-known universe of the movies, we can find the basis of a true critical thought that questions the relationships of domination, exploitation, exclusion or inequality that characterize the model of society rejected by the demonstrators of Plaza Italia, today Plaza de la Dignidad, in Santiago de Chile, and in so many other parts of our planet. 

This article seeks to highlight certain mechanisms of the Chilean State that present characteristics of the concepts of Necropolitics of Achille Mbembe and Gore Capitalism of Sayak Valencia. The objective is to expose the use of these forms and mechanisms of bio-power, whose operation has been exacerbated in the context of citizen demonstrations of the last month of October 2019. We understand the actions of police forces as a new phase, within the control mechanisms provided by the state. These one are structured as forms of surveillance, channeling and punishment, in a dialogue between politics and violence, framed in a neoliberal social macrostructure.

Disdained as School of Resentment, humanities prophesied the October Revolution (Chile, 19 Oct. 2019). Against insults, in this essay, I insist that theatre and performance—the critical and historiographical traditions involved in its study—have portrayed one of the most accurate prophecies of the present. To demonstrate my statement, I will offer a close reading of The Invaders [Los invasores] (1963), by Egon Wolff (1926-2016). Through this critical exercise, I’ll finally describe the cornerstones of this social crisis. From the perspective of neoliberal think tanks and hegemonic mass media, this is yet an unpredictable event. Naturally, I’m referring to (a) the return of the people [pueblo], (b) the denounce uttered by these people about a Nation-state that became a sacrifice zone, and (c) the urgent need—also diagnosticated by the same people—of refunding the cultural codes bequeathed by the shock doctrine installed under the dictatorship.

El pensamiento de Theodor Adorno sitúa el núcleo de sus preocupaciones en el terreno de la modernidad europea. La textura entera de sus reflexiones brinda múltiples huellas y abre diversas vías a partir de las cuales acercarse al fenómeno denominado «modernidad» como tiempo histórico caracterizado por las contradicciones decisivas de un estado de la cultura y la sociedad. Por eso, en el marco de las críticas materialistas a la racionalidad moderna, la filosofía adorniana destaca por su relevancia.Así entonces, el objetivo de este escrito consiste en indagar la cartografía de las distintas vertientes teóricas que definen la actividad filosófica de Alemania en las primeras décadas del siglo XX efectuada por este pensador con el fin de advertir la diagnosis que orienta sus reflexiones. Comprender el modo en que Adorno interpreta el estado de la racionalidad filosófica en los albores del siglo XX constituye un momento insoslayable a la hora de capturar algunas de las preocupaciones fundamentales de su pensamiento en torno a la modernidad.

This article discusses the politics of memory associated with the anti-Pinochet movements and the role of women in such discourses in Diamela Eltit’s novel Jamás el fuego nunca (2007) and Pía González’s Libreta de familia (2008). In particular, this study will demonstrate how these novels challenge the image of women that collective discourses of the traumatic past produce and perpetuate in the public space. In order to do so, this article will discuss how both texts discard an aesthetic and narrative strategies typically associated with social realism to expose the construction of female militancy, the family and motherhood as experiences shaped by a sociomasculine logic. Ultimately, this study claims both novels by re-imagining the memory practices of women politically affiliated with urban guerrilla groups or dissident movements of Christian inspiration bear witness to the voices of individuals whose experiences have been ignored, marginalized or co-opted by official narratives in the aftermath of violence due to political agendas in post-dictatorship Chile