Whitewashed Walls and (Un) broken Windows. Notes on Operation Cleanness, 1973
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2020
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Following the 1973 coup. the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio pushed forward an operation designed to materially and rhetorically erase the traces of a recent past through the whitewashing of urban walls. Taking the episode as a starting point, the following article seeks to render visible the conflation of aesthetic, hygienic, and political claims that the campaign circulated and their reincarnations in a binary narrative anchored on the language of order that arguably still haunts us today.
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Cleaning, Political propaganda, Chile, Dictatorship, Print media