Constructing Memory through Television in Argentina

La televisión representa el pasado reciente de la Argentina a través de vínculos específicos con la memoria social: como un “emprendedor de la memoria” definiendo las agendas públicas, como un vehículo de transmisión intergeneracional sobre el pasado y como un creador de significados por medio de imágenes, sonidos y palabras, esto es, un “escenario para la memoria”. Un análisis de los vínculos entre televisión y memorias, construido alrededor de la desaparición forzada de personas durante la dictadura militar de 1976 a 1983, revela la manera compleja en la cual los obstáculos para relatar ese periodo trágico se combinan con el intento de vender un producto y entretener al espectador.Television represents Argentina’s recent past through three specific links with social memory: as an “entrepreneur of memory,” shaping public agendas, as a vehicle of intergenerational transmission of past events, and as a creator of meaning through images, sounds, and words, a “stage for memory”. An analysis in terms of the links between television and the memories constructed around the forced disappearance of persons during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship reveals the complex way in which the obstacles when narrating an extreme experience are combined with the attempt to sell a product and entertain the spectator.Fil: Feld, Claudia Viviana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales. Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales; Argentin

Agamben’s Grammar of the Secret Under the Sign of the Law

This paper suggests that a grammar of the secret forms a concept in Agamben’s work, a gap that grounds the enigma of sovereignty. Between the Indo-European *krei, *se, and *per themes, the secret is etymologically linked to the logics of separation and potentiality that together enable the pliant and emergent structure of sovereignty. Sovereignty’s logic of separation meets the logic of relation in the form of abandonment: the point at which division has exhausted itself and reaches an indivisible element, bare life, the exception separated from the form of life and captured in a separate sphere. The arcanum imperii of sovereignty and the cipher of bare life are held together in the relation of the ban as the twin secrets of biopower, maintained by the potentiality of law that works itself as a concealed, inscrutable force. But the ‘real’ secret of sovereignty, I suggest, is its dialectical reversibility, the point at which the concept of the secret is met by its own immanent unworking by the critic and scribe under the *krei theme, and subject to abandonment through the work of profanation; here, different species of the secret are thrown against one another, one order undoing the other. The secret founded upon the sacred is displaced by Agamben’s critical orientation toward the immanent: what is immanent is both potential and hiddenness

Retórica e História

Tradução de Rhetoric and History, from History and Criticism. Copyright (c) 1985 by Cornell University. Todos os direitos reservados

Liaisons et déliaisons

The phenomenon of 'transfer cannot be cut down to the analytical treatment. This text studies the possible exchanges between history and psychoanalysis within the frame of a non-linear perception of temporal processes. The author wishes to set the links between the two domains within the realm of connections and disconnections, included into the social and cultural activities analyzed here within the context of the modern era.Le phénomène du transfert n'est pas réductible à la cure analytique. L'article étudie les échanges possibles entre histoire et psychanalyse dans le cadre d'une conception non-linéaire des processus temporels. Son auteur préconise de situer les rapports entre les deux disciplines sur le registre des liaisons et des déliaisons immanentes aux manifestations socio-culturelles analysées ici en prenant l'exemple de ce qu'elles furent à l'époque moderne.LaCapra Dominick. Liaisons et déliaisons. In: Espaces Temps, 80-81, 2002. Michel de Certeau, histoire/psychanalyse. Mises à l'épreuve, sous la direction de Christian Delacroix, François Dosse et Patrick Garcia. pp. 38-54