"Don't let them take it from above." Melancholy as a Political Imperative
This article proposes to return to the so-called "Basterra Report", the statement that Víctor Melchor Basterra, survivor of the clandestine detention center of the Navy School of Mechanics (former ESMA) offered at the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) in 1984 with the aim of think...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/43600 |
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| Sumario: | This article proposes to return to the so-called "Basterra Report", the statement that Víctor Melchor Basterra, survivor of the clandestine detention center of the Navy School of Mechanics (former ESMA) offered at the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) in 1984 with the aim of thinking about the affective matrix that underlies his testimonial vocation. In this sense, a double dimension of analysis is proposed: on the one hand, to think about Basterra's archival vocation in his will to declassify documents of the repressors; on the other hand, to explore his compulsion to remember in terms of an operant melancholy that functions as a political imperative. |
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