Argentine as laboratory: crisis, governamentality and new social conflict

GAGO, VERÓNICA Y SZTULWARK, DIEGO

Toronto

Conferencia; Delicate Craft Labour: Research, Precarity, Crisis; 2012

Wilfried Laurier University

To say that Argentina is a laboratory is a way of accounting for a permanent and open series of social conflict dynamics in constant and problematic dialogue with a new form of governance. In the last decade, these dynamics have been linked to the development of the crisis that stamped its signature on the political system in terms of structural fragility and a demand for innovation. The latent condition of the crisis leads us to think of this decade as ten years of 2001. 2001 is, then, an active principle, almost a method, a way of seeing what is happening as it develops. In this sense, the crisis, with its multiple meanings?instability and creation, worry and uncertainty, openness and change of the calendar?becomes a premise. However, the dynamic of conflict has acquired a new feature in recent times. On one hand, it imposes itself as an overflow: a dynamic of cracks and unforeseen openings that do not recognize the modalities of social movements or other organized forms of protest.