Shadow over the body

This work treats the administration of fear inherited from the military dictatorship in Chile (1973-1989). Following the approach of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, it proposes to explore the link between the archetypal conformation of the terrorist -as the trusted subject of dictatorial sovereignty- and the common criminal, as a social phantom of the present. The thesis proposed holds that by the imaginary social administration of political torture, post-dictatorial governments formulate a repressive pedagogy that dispenses with physical violence against the body to modulate its gesturing. PALABRAS CLAVE | KEYWORDS tortura politica | delincuencia | terrorismo | violencia de Estado | control social | cuerpo humano | political torture | delinquency | terrorism | violence of State | social control | human body