Table of Contents

6. An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Flix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain / Lone Bertelsen and Andrew Murphie 138

An Inventory of Shimmers / Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg 1




Acknowledgments xi
Maps xviii
Introduction to the Trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet’s Chile xxi
Introduction to Book One: Remembering Pinochet’s Chile 1
1. Heroic Memory: Ruin into Salvation 7
AFTERWORD Childhood Holidays, Childhood Salvation 35
2. Dissident Memory: Rupture, Persecution, Awakening 39
AFTERWORD The Lore of Goodness and Remorse 68
3. Indifferent Memory: Closing the Box on the Past 88
AFTERWORD The Accident: Temptations of Silence 102
4. From Loose Memory to Emblematic Memory: Knots on the Social Body 104
AFTERWORD Memory Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 134
Conclusion: Memories and Silences of the Heart 143
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Essay on Sources 155
Notes 157
Essay on Sources 215
Index 237

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An oral history of those who suffered through the Pinochet years in Chile and the way those years are viewed in present-day Chile.

About the Author

Steve J. Stern is Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among his most recent books is Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980–1995, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"Remembering Pinochet's Chile will set the terms of the debate and become essential reading for all scholars and students of memory issues...It is a path-breaking book, the cutting edge of a major historical project. Stern presents new information, particularly through oral histories, including those of Pinochet soldiers and partisans who have rarely been willing to be interviewed about the human rights violations of the era." Peter Winn, editor of Victims of the Chilean Miracle: workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002 "a thoughtful, nuanced study. .. . In light of the recent revelations of American human rights abuses of Iraqi prisoners, his insights into the legacies of torture and abuse in the Chilean prisons of the 1970s certainly have contemporary significance for any society that undergoes a national trauma." Publishers Weekly "Steve J. Stern's book is a reflection on and analysis of the process by which a society's memory constructs the heroes and villains, as seen in Chile twenty-five years after General Pinochet's brutal takeover of power in 1973."--Times Literary Supplement, July 9, 2004