The result of the 2022 plebiscite in Chile indicates a new stage of the Chilean neoconservative and oligarchic reaction, as well as of the mood of the social forces that developed with the 2019 revolt. Drawing on political research collective Vitrina Dystópica's archive of dialogues, interviews, and interventions, this article proposes an analytical exercise that seeks to challenge the ongoing totalitarian coup of the political imagination. This exploration of the memory of struggles allows for gathering techniques, strategies, and moments of vitalization to affirm the affective defeat and recompose collective forces in new questions for the future, joy, and dignity. The reflections shared here take place in a concrete practice of political reorganization that the authors call espacio.tierra, and they argue that the revolt does not start on October 18, 2019, nor does it end with the plebiscite on September 4, 2022; rather, it exists in the affective infrastructures over which collective questions and practices are raised for the reproduction and multiplication of life.
Infrastructure and Dignity: Notes on the Becoming of the Chilean Revolt
Patricio Azócar Donoso is a professor of philosophy at Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences, with a master's in gender and culture studies (University of Chile). He is Honorary Professor in the philosophy department at UMCE-Chile and psychology department at Universidad de O'Higgins-Chile and researcher at the Chronobiology and Sleep Laboratory at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sol-Brasil and at Laboratorio Transdisciplinar en Prácticas Sociales y Subjetividad (University of Chile). He is also a researcher and member of the Vitrina Dystópica collective and espacio.tierra. He is currently working on a PhD in psychiatry and behavioral sciences (UFRGS-Brasil).
Hugo Sir Retamales received a joint PhD in sociology and social sciences from the University of Chile and the University of Paris VIII. He is an associated researcher at the Laboratorio Transdisciplinar en Prácticas Sociales y Subjetividad at the University of Chile and adjunct professor at different institutions. He is a member of the Vitrina Dystópica collective and espacio.tierra.
Vitrina Dystópica, Patricio Azócar Donoso, Hugo Sir Retamales; Infrastructure and Dignity: Notes on the Becoming of the Chilean Revolt. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 2023; 122 (4): 861–868. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-10779487
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