Incommunication, memory and simulacrum

Abstract

The text study the current relationship between (in)communication and information in the media networks; this approached from perspective of virtuality. It considers that they no longer generate fundamental “mediations” in any communicative or representative process, but “immediate” actions, a situation which prevents the construction of the cultural account in the post-dictatorship Chile; hence the attempts to re-comprise the fractured and divided remains of the sense. The paper analyzes –through some examples extracted from the Chilean television— in what way the sense is sedentarized, limited and hidden behind representation and the reign of the signifier. It considers, among other themes, how the policies of the memory are simulated on the virtual webs, transforming themselves into an aesthetic and static ecstasy of the information networks; a process that culminates with the aesthetics of the policy initiated by fascism. Finally, it proposes some deconstructive strategies, in order to find a way out of that sedentary and representative communication, restating the notions of performativity, affection of the sense, nomadism and unlimitability of the context.