RECYCLED MEMORIES AND ITS EXEMPLARY USE: DISPUTES FOR THE PAST IN THE ARGENTINEAN PRESENT

Resumen

On May 10th, 2017, a massive mobilization overflooded the main streets of Buenos Aires and other Argentinean provinces to show rejection for the pretention of the Supreme Court to apply the norm known as Ley 2x1 to Luis Muiña’s case, judged as a repressor during the last civic-military dictatorship. Dozens of visual manifestations were left as vestiges of the protest, and among them, a graffiti with the recycle symbol and the faces of Jorge Rafael Videla, Carlos Menem, and Mauricio Macri. At first glance, what it looked like a critic, it was also the representation of the transit the collective memory has traveled to be constructed and reconstructed in the postdictatorial era. This paper aims to insert the so-called graffiti as a representation of the dispute for the past in the Argentinean present, and the way this influences the construction of the collective memory in this country.