In Spite of Everything, to Appear

Resumen

This article examines the notion of appearance in the context of the violence and terror exemplified by the mass disappearance of 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teacher-Training College. This case will help to explore the conditions of politics in zones where the state has transformed itself into a war machine and the practices in which, in spite of all, the common can be made to appear. Revisiting a project of the Teatro Ojo collective, What is to come, the paper articulates approaches of Hannah Arendt, Georges Didi-Huberman and Jacques Rancière to think of the notion of appearance as an aesthetic operation that is also political.