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Whitewashed Walls and (Un)broken Windows. Notes on Operation Cleanness, 1973
Following the 1973 coup, the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio pushed forward an operation designed to materially and rhetorically erase the traces of a recent past through the whitewashing of urban walls. Taking the episode as a starting point, the following article seeks to render visible the conflation of aesthetic, hygienic, and political claims that the campaign circulated and their reincarnations in a binary narrative anchored on the language of order that arguably still haunts us today.
Whitewashed Walls and (Un)broken Windows. Notes on Operation Cleanness, 1973
Following the 1973 coup, the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio pushed forward an operation designed to materially and rhetorically erase the traces of a recent past through the whitewashing of urban walls. Taking the episode as a starting point, the following article seeks to render visible the conflation of aesthetic, hygienic, and political claims that the campaign circulated and their reincarnations in a binary narrative anchored on the language of order that arguably still haunts us today.
Whitewashed Walls and (Un)broken Windows. Notes on Operation Cleanness, 1973
Lucía Galaretto (author)
2020
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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