The Revolt's Illegitimate Body?

Abstract

The 2019 revolt in Chile touched and exposed the mythical violence involved in the establishment and preservation of political-legal orders (Benjamin). The demand for the New Constitution and the (ineffective?) process of its elaboration could have been key moments of that exposition, but never its final destination, nor the legal body in which the revolt could have been hosted and translated. It was not the demands of the revolt that put the established legal-political order in check, but the constitution without Constitution of a collective and vital political power (potencia) that, once and again, resisted being subjected by force—by the force of instituted law—to the legal-political pact within whose framework it was supposedly irrevocably destined to move, be recognized, and raise its demands.