Post-dictatorship and universities without conditions

student revolts, feminist May and social explosion 50 years after the coup d'etat in Chile

Abstract

This paper proposes a discussion on what is meant by post dictatorship as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile. For this, the theoretical discussion between dictatorship and post dictatorship and how its applications have affected the evolution of current democracies is resumed. Democracies that are sequels committed to a market model that prevails since the policies of Augusto Pinochet. As a reaction to these policies, “Chile despertó”, leaving indelible traces through social outbursts, feminist mobilizations and student revolts. Demonstrations that questioned the “conditions” imposed by the system and invited us to think, for example, of “unconditional” universities and even of “unconditional” societies. Finally, the above will be exemplified with a meeting between literature and theater, which recalls what happened in two dictatorships – Chilean and Uruguayan – that coincide in the date of the 50 years. These are “unconditional” societies represented in the work Primavera con una esquina rota by the Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti (1982) and the assembly of the same name of the Chilean company ICTUS (1984). Actions that escape the official memories and distance themselves from the speeches of authority that make forgetting the center of memory.