The Necromantic State
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The Necromantic State

Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution

  1. 345 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Necromantic State

Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution

About this book

In the spring of 2013, televisions across Venezuela announced the death of then-president Hugo ChĂĄvez, leader of the Bolivarian Revolution and key political actor in Latin America's "turn to the left." ChĂĄvez's death, however, was not the end of ChĂĄvez's life. In The Necromantic State, Irina R. Troconis examines how ChĂĄvez, as a "specter," has lingered in Venezuela's public, private, and digital spaces. Focusing on contemporary Venezuela and drawing from a diverse corpus that includes tattoos, toys, memes, graffiti, and a hologram haunting the streets of downtown Caracas, Troconis contends that, in moments of failed transitions, political tensions, and crises of legitimacy, the state brings the dead back to life to negotiate the terms of its survival. By showing how this necromantic performance enables the state's material and visual manifestations in public and private spaces, Troconis untangles a sociopolitical moment in which the ghostly acts as the affective, social, and political force that grounds state authority and ensures the preservation of the status quo, as it circumscribes acts of political imagination and limits popular resistance.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction / The Necromantic State
  5. 1. Chronicle of a Death Postponed
  6. 2. Under the Specter’s Gaze
  7. 3. (Re)Collecting ChĂĄvez
  8. 4. Toying with the Comandante
  9. Interlude / Afterdeath
  10. 5. Raw and Rotten
  11. Coda / An Impulse toward Potentiality
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Index