Imágenes de la muerte y necropolítica de la dictadura en Chile

Abstract

Violent death and forced disappearance, as necropolitical operations of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973–1990), has been the subject of a war of images where the naturalization of disappearance and the invisibilization of violence were confronted by images created to make visible what state terrorism had tried to erase from historical memory. This article addresses the becoming-image of these bodies, after their organic death, in the different temporalities of their inscription in social memory through art, cinema, anthropology, and the law. I offer thus a journey into a little explored dimension of necropolitics, such as attempts to manage time and memory through operations of concealment and the technopolitics of images. The written montage of Walter Benjamin's “dialectical images,” which juxtapose, condense, and intertwine heterogeneous temporalities, seeks to show how images of the dead can contribute to disabling the necropolitical administration of memory.