... This chapter documents how counterinsurgent, paramilitary terror unmade Barrancabermeja’s working class by rupturing the fabric of popular solidarity and dispossessing and displacing working people from the late twentieth century to the present. Political violence provided both the preconditions...

... invisibility (absence, un-image-ability), and hypervisibility (a visual archetype conflated with the “spectacle of terror”) by analyzing two films by the acclaimed Palestinian director Elia Suleiman. The chapter’s reading of Suleiman’s films further highlights the different mechanisms involved in rendering...