La fiesta de un país normal. La disolución del 2001 en los festejos del bicentenario

Abstract

Party Of A Normal Country. The Dissolution Of 2001 In The Bicentennial

Between the political and economic crisis of 2001 and the official Argentine Bicentennial celebrations of May 2010, new hegemonic, instituent discourses turned the crisis into normalization, and insurrection into traditional ways of doing politics. These celebrations seem to mark a new stage and a new official way of representing history, re-opening a new social equilibrium within the frame of the nation state in which conflicts have been left in the past. However, if we consider that the nation state and the capitalist system of exchange inherently lead to inequality and the repression of some forms of representation by others, this social equilibrium is no more than an arbitrary way of naming reality. It is therefore necessary to remove these dominant symbolic expressions that name or omit forms of political expression such as those initiated in December 2001, and in doing so, pose some questions: How does the recent past, particularly the 2001 crisis, appear in the discourse emanating from the Argentine national state in latter years? What place do the political experiences that originated at that time occupy today? What is recovered and what is being pushed into oblivion?