Visibilities and Violence on the skin of Colombia

ADRIÁN SCRIBANO; PEDRO LISDERO; IGNACIO PELLÓN

Documentos de Trabajo del CIES

Cies

Año: 2021

2362-2598

The article makes some reflections on the National Strike (Colombia 2021), based on three axes of analysis: visibility, violence and skin. This events can therefore be thought of as clues to the ways in which the skin of the social body is woven, and as a way of thinking about our reflexive practice as a component of it. When the authors speak to us of the impotence, of the lack of fear of the young people who went out to march, or speak to us of the renewed marks that repression imprints on the skin, we must also find there a message about what unites us, about what hurts us, and how this constitutes - just at the beginning - what we will be able to do. This Working Document is therefore a moment of visibility of our common skin, an instance of continuity among many that seeks to de-naturalise the violence we carry with us. Starting from the battle of bodies to the battle for life, on a planet of living beings in freedom, we move towards the battle for the authorship of a world worth living: today more than ever, the fighter is a creator who claims the autonomy of his or her authorial capacity over possible worlds.