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<p>This article deals with the aesthetic mobilization of anonymity in Argentine activist practices. Focusing on the specific intervention of <bold>El Siluetazo</bold>, the public drawing and placarding of nameless silhouettes during the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, anonymity will be explored as instigating an affective politics of sensation. Different from the human rights discourse on disappearance, which is concerned with politics of identification of the disappeared and the repressors, anonymity offers forms of affective relaying beyond identity. The logic of identity will be discussed in relation to a “distribution of the sensible” that takes aesthetics of sense perception as the target of control (Rancière, 2004). Through investigating the silhouettes not as a universal signifier of disappearance but as an aesthetic expression potentially moving across space and time, I will unfold a media ecological conception of activist practices and their capacities of activating transtemporal forms of resistance.</p>
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This article deals with the aesthetic mobilization of anonymity in Argentine activist practices. Focusing on the specific intervention of El Siluetazo, the public drawing and placarding of nameless silhouettes during the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, anonymity will be explored as instigating an affective politics of sensation. Different from the human rights discourse on disappearance, which is concerned with politics of identification of the disappeared and the repressors, anonymity offers forms of affective relaying beyond identity. The logic of identity will be discussed in relation to a “distribution of the sensible” that takes aesthetics of sense perception as the target of control (Rancière, 2004). Through investigating the silhouettes not as a universal signifier of disappearance but as an aesthetic expression potentially moving across space and time, I will unfold a media ecological conception of activist practices and their capacities of activating transtemporal forms of resistance.

Affective Politics of Sensation: Anonymity and Transtemporal Activism in Argentina

cultural and media theorist currently working at Zurich University of the Arts

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This article deals with the aesthetic mobilization of anonymity in Argentine activist practices. Focusing on the specific intervention of El Siluetazo, the...

Affective Politics of Sensation: Anonymity and Transtemporal Activism in Argentina

Publicado en línea: 30 mar 2021

Páginas: 177 - 195

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/tjcp.v2i1.22276

Palabras clave
Representation, media ecology, affect, El Siluetazo, hapticality, Madres de Plaza de Mayo

© 2021 Christoph Brunner, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Affective Politics of Sensation: Anonymity and Transtemporal Activism in Argentina

Publicado en línea: 30 mar 2021

Páginas: 177 - 195

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/tjcp.v2i1.22276

Palabras claveRepresentation, media ecology, affect, El Siluetazo, hapticality, Madres de Plaza de Mayo

© 2021 Christoph Brunner, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Representation, media ecology, affect, El Siluetazo, hapticality, Madres de Plaza de Mayo