Glitching the State: The Mechanics of Resistance in Ricardo Piglia’s La Ciudad Ausente

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" Glitching the State: The Mechanics of Resistance in Ricardo Piglia’s La Ciudad Ausente "
Osman, Henry

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	925391
Doc. No	:	LA0cp7z1rr
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Osman, Henry
Title & Author	:	Glitching the State: The Mechanics of Resistance in Ricardo Piglia’s La Ciudad Ausente [Article]\ Osman, Henry
Title of Periodical	:	Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1
Date	:	2018
Abstract	:	Torture is a storytelling device in that it attempts to (re)narrate and extricate the lives of others, often in the name of a potentially fallacious official memory. In the torture chamber, violence is posited as a search for knowledge whose veracity is not always necessary. States around the world have used torture to extract information and reaffirm their own narrative; due to this legacy of state violence, many post-trauma works aim to reveal the extent of the practice and the damage it causes as a form of resistance. This is particularly relevant to contemporary Argentina, where the legacy of state violence, particularly forced disappearances and torture during the military junta’s Dirty War (1976-1983), is still being dealt with in the public sphere and in institutions such as the Supreme Court, which last year controversially allowed the early release of hundreds of convicted human rights abuses.