How can we explain that at the center of the project of modernity lies a pile of ruins? Modernity... more How can we explain that at the center of the project of modernity lies a pile of ruins? Modernity, with its wars, its mechanized visions of progress, its consumption, is nurtured by destruction, the constant demand to keep constructing, to keep looking ahead, propelled by its storm. Ruins invite us to remember, and that ethical imperative becomes a political standpoint in Latin America. From the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu and the Aztec ruins swallowed by the modern landscape as in el Templo Mayor and Tlatelolco, to commemorative sites such as Chile's Villa Grimaldi and its hidden bodies in ruins, that remind us of the many desaparecidos in Latin America, ruins have always a story to tell.
En este libro, Michael Lazzara (profesor en la Universidad de California, Davis), indaga en las f... more En este libro, Michael Lazzara (profesor en la Universidad de California, Davis), indaga en las formas de hacer memoria por parte de artistas y ciudadanos frente a la violenta experiencia política de la dictadura chilena. En ese sentido hay una pregunta fundamental que recorre de principio a fin este ensayo: "Después de experiencias límite como la tortura y la desaparición, ¿quién está autorizado para hablar del pasado y en qué registro?" Esta cuestión ha guiado los debates en torno al Holocausto, acontecimiento histórico convertido en paradigma de un pasado 1 La traducción al español, publicada por la editorial chilena Cuarto Propio bajo el título Prismas de la Memoria. Narración y Trauma en la Transición Chilena, fue presentada en la Feria del Libro de Santiago en noviembre del 2007.
... ESTRATEGIAS DE DOMINACIÓN Y RESISTENCIA 159 que ... diarios sindicales situados en un momento... more ... ESTRATEGIAS DE DOMINACIÓN Y RESISTENCIA 159 que ... diarios sindicales situados en un momento coyuntural de principios del siglo xx, pero ya remoto del presente neoliberal«Verba roja (Santiago, 1918)»,«Luzy vida (Antofagasta, 1909)»,«Autonomía y solidaridad ...
Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium, 2016
Documentary filmmaking in Latin America today undoubtedly differs from the militant cinema of the... more Documentary filmmaking in Latin America today undoubtedly differs from the militant cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. But what remains of “Third Cinema”? How do new strategies blend with old ones to create a kind of temporal hybridity in documentary film? How do new movements like Argentina’s cine piquetero (picket-line cinema) return us to the aesthetics of forty years ago? And how do they diverge? This chapter looks at these questions by considering the evolution from the 1960s to the present of two of Latin America’s most iconic cultivators of militant cinema, Fernando E. “Pino” Solanas (Argentina) and Patricio Guzman (Chile). The work of these filmmakers is placed into dialogue with the emergence of cine piquetero since the 1990s.
I would like to talk a little bit about Carola (Maria Alicia Uribe Gomez). Unlike Alejandra (Marc... more I would like to talk a little bit about Carola (Maria Alicia Uribe Gomez). Unlike Alejandra (Marcia Alejandra Merino Vega) and you, Carola remained a functionary of DINE (Direccion de Inteligencia del Ejercito), the Chilean army’s intelligence service, even after the 1990 return to democracy and the formal dissolution of DINA and CNI. Have you ever felt any kind of rejection toward Carola because of how she ultimately decided to confront the common situation that the three of you lived?
Civilian complicity remains one of the least studied aspects of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorsh... more Civilian complicity remains one of the least studied aspects of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and, to this point, has not been a matter of widespread public debate in Chile. This article examines the case of Mariana Callejas, a literary writer who married the American-born DINA henchman Michael Townley, infamous for his complicity in the deaths of ex-president Eduardo Frei Montalva, Salvador Allende Gossens's former minister Orlando Letelier, and General Carlos Prats, a general loyal to Allende. After many years living in impunity, Callejas, who continued to write literary fiction up until just a few years ago, was sent briefly to prison for her complicity in the Letelier assassination. She is now free. In many ways, her case emblematizes the complicities of the Chilean intelligentsia with the dictatorship, while also revealing how common citizens committed themselves ideologically to state-sponsored violence. This article reads Callejas's present-bound, first-person 1...
How can we explain that at the center of the project of modernity lies a pile of ruins? Modernity... more How can we explain that at the center of the project of modernity lies a pile of ruins? Modernity, with its wars, its mechanized visions of progress, its consumption, is nurtured by destruction, the constant demand to keep constructing, to keep looking ahead, propelled by its storm. Ruins invite us to remember, and that ethical imperative becomes a political standpoint in Latin America. From the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu and the Aztec ruins swallowed by the modern landscape as in el Templo Mayor and Tlatelolco, to commemorative sites such as Chile's Villa Grimaldi and its hidden bodies in ruins, that remind us of the many desaparecidos in Latin America, ruins have always a story to tell.
En este libro, Michael Lazzara (profesor en la Universidad de California, Davis), indaga en las f... more En este libro, Michael Lazzara (profesor en la Universidad de California, Davis), indaga en las formas de hacer memoria por parte de artistas y ciudadanos frente a la violenta experiencia política de la dictadura chilena. En ese sentido hay una pregunta fundamental que recorre de principio a fin este ensayo: "Después de experiencias límite como la tortura y la desaparición, ¿quién está autorizado para hablar del pasado y en qué registro?" Esta cuestión ha guiado los debates en torno al Holocausto, acontecimiento histórico convertido en paradigma de un pasado 1 La traducción al español, publicada por la editorial chilena Cuarto Propio bajo el título Prismas de la Memoria. Narración y Trauma en la Transición Chilena, fue presentada en la Feria del Libro de Santiago en noviembre del 2007.
... ESTRATEGIAS DE DOMINACIÓN Y RESISTENCIA 159 que ... diarios sindicales situados en un momento... more ... ESTRATEGIAS DE DOMINACIÓN Y RESISTENCIA 159 que ... diarios sindicales situados en un momento coyuntural de principios del siglo xx, pero ya remoto del presente neoliberal«Verba roja (Santiago, 1918)»,«Luzy vida (Antofagasta, 1909)»,«Autonomía y solidaridad ...
Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium, 2016
Documentary filmmaking in Latin America today undoubtedly differs from the militant cinema of the... more Documentary filmmaking in Latin America today undoubtedly differs from the militant cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. But what remains of “Third Cinema”? How do new strategies blend with old ones to create a kind of temporal hybridity in documentary film? How do new movements like Argentina’s cine piquetero (picket-line cinema) return us to the aesthetics of forty years ago? And how do they diverge? This chapter looks at these questions by considering the evolution from the 1960s to the present of two of Latin America’s most iconic cultivators of militant cinema, Fernando E. “Pino” Solanas (Argentina) and Patricio Guzman (Chile). The work of these filmmakers is placed into dialogue with the emergence of cine piquetero since the 1990s.
I would like to talk a little bit about Carola (Maria Alicia Uribe Gomez). Unlike Alejandra (Marc... more I would like to talk a little bit about Carola (Maria Alicia Uribe Gomez). Unlike Alejandra (Marcia Alejandra Merino Vega) and you, Carola remained a functionary of DINE (Direccion de Inteligencia del Ejercito), the Chilean army’s intelligence service, even after the 1990 return to democracy and the formal dissolution of DINA and CNI. Have you ever felt any kind of rejection toward Carola because of how she ultimately decided to confront the common situation that the three of you lived?
Civilian complicity remains one of the least studied aspects of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorsh... more Civilian complicity remains one of the least studied aspects of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and, to this point, has not been a matter of widespread public debate in Chile. This article examines the case of Mariana Callejas, a literary writer who married the American-born DINA henchman Michael Townley, infamous for his complicity in the deaths of ex-president Eduardo Frei Montalva, Salvador Allende Gossens's former minister Orlando Letelier, and General Carlos Prats, a general loyal to Allende. After many years living in impunity, Callejas, who continued to write literary fiction up until just a few years ago, was sent briefly to prison for her complicity in the Letelier assassination. She is now free. In many ways, her case emblematizes the complicities of the Chilean intelligentsia with the dictatorship, while also revealing how common citizens committed themselves ideologically to state-sponsored violence. This article reads Callejas's present-bound, first-person 1...
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