El fin(al) de la hegemonía: La “función populista” en la época del (pseudo)discurso capitalista

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This article is based on the premise that the ontological terrain in which Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe thought about their concept of hegemony, that is, that marked by the irresolvable tension between equivalence and difference, has been displaced by the irruption of the unlimited logic of (pseudo)capitalist discourse (Lacan). Consequently, the conditions that made hegemonic articulations still possible –as cement of the populist form– have been altered by the capitalist discourse. In such a way, that the game between the pairs partiality/universality and lack/fullness, has been relegated by a circular and incessant movement. Likewise, the work addressed the foundational ground of this ontological operation of the capitalist discourse: that of temporality. Based on some comparative notes of the Argentine and Spanish cases in the treatment of crimes against humanity, the ways in which the capitalist discourse establishes the trivialization of history and the radical rejection of memory(s) through the Theme park logic. To conclude, the article proposes a conception of populism that, in our time, moves away from its consideration as quintessential political form, to think of it as a function. The populist function is that capable of introducing another temporality, of piercing the capitalist devices for the production of subjectivity and of producing knots that slow down capitalist circularity.

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