To interpret the Chilean insurrection of October
Slavoj Žižek and the theory of the political-ethical act.
Abstract
This article constitutes an interpretive reading of the social mobilizations that took place in Chile, beginning in October 18, 2019. For this, the concepts of Act and Event as developed by Žižek are used, based in ruptures and continuities with Lacan and Badiou, which will serve to think the historical transcendence of the Chilean protests. To delve into this reading, an analysis based on the categories of rupture, loss, lack, historicity, repoliticization, retroactivity and repetition is proposed, concluding that the events of October 18 and subsequent months mark a breaking point with neoliberal hegemony, by introducing a negativity capable of subverting the prevailing symbolic order, animated by an ethics of desire.
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