Artículo de Revista
Remembering a socialist future in postdictatorship chile: Utopian anticipation and anti-utopian critique in Jorge Baradit´s synco
Registro en:
Utopian Studies, Vol.29, N°3, 398-415
10.5325/utopianstudies.29.3.0398
Autor
Saldías Rossel, Gabriel
Institución
Resumen
The objective of the article is to describe and problematize the concept of socialist utopianism in the Chilean context of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through an analysis of Jorge Baradit’s alternate history novel, Synco. Published in 2008 but chronologically situated in the 1980s, Baradit’s novel imagines socialist Chile as a dystopia disguised as a technologically advanced eutopia. This brings into the foreground many utopian contents of the past socialist experience in the country that are eventually dismantled by the anti-utopian, anti-ideological postdictatorship perspective of the author, which constitutes both a critique and a testament of the weakened state of current political trust and militancy in the country