Revolt/Performance. The Performative Pause.

Abstract

In posthumous speculation, the 2019 Chilean revolt, rather than suggesting a limit to the neoliberal trace, seems to constitute a reset that is conducive to its deployment. This text develops a “second degree” reading in which it is no longer a matter of the antagonism between revolt and neoliberalism, but rather a sort of revolt/neoliberalism fold that shifts from stabilizing in institutional functionings to convulsing in revolt. Along with the revolt's character of “neoliberal reset,” a possible additional force within it, a mutant, performáncia (pure performance) residue, irreducible to neoliberal performativity, is taken into account.