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The Scilingo Effect and the Specified

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Abstract

This chapter is an unprecedented investigation into the testimony of Adolfo Scilingo, a Navy lieutenant during the Argentine dictatorship and official state murderer of over 30 political prisoners, and de facto leader of the junta, General Jorge Videla. I first take on the famous text of his confession to journalist Horacio Verbitsky, El vuelo and argue for the necessary understanding of his confession as a failure of the strength of dictatorship and state terrorism to maintain its commitment to the specified logic of individuation. I then take Videla’s confession to illustrate the movement of the specified as the formation of a bellic subjectivity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLiteratures of the Americas
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages99-144
Number of pages46
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

Publication series

NameLiteratures of the Americas
ISSN (Print)2634-601X
ISSN (Electronic)2634-6028

Keywords

  • Military Coup
  • Military Officer
  • Political Entity
  • Political Violence
  • Retributive Justice

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