The country where nothing happens(ed)

Abstract

The article offers the figure of evasion as an event that challenges normal frameworks to come to terms with the irruption of social mobilizations that have been called “revolts” or “bursting” (estallido). This reading of evasion focuses on the registering of the reconfiguration of three categories crisscrossing the current moment: that of “people” (pueblo) as specter and promise of assembly; that of “image” as way of being and as space and time of encounter; and that of “violence” as structuring factor of democracy, as well as an evidence of a (its) void and need for translation.