El golpe y sus metamorfosis

Abstract

This in an essay related to the persistence of the coup d’état in Chile, in 1973, and its consequences in post-dictatorial times. Under the hypothesis that the coup itself has been reduced to its mediatic and monumental representation, we proceed to criticize the exceptionalist readings that syndicate it as an accident from which we would have already recovered, by recovering democracy. This interpretation, which marks the convergence of the official political sectors during the so-called transition, has prevented us from seeing that one of the central effects of the coup is the displacement of a liberal and democratic social contract, by a new type of neoliberal pact; a pact that is complemented by a mediarchy that tends to reduce the complexity of historical processes to the eventual time of the mass-media and opinion polls.