At the edge of the abyss. Horror and modernity in Santa Maria of Iquique

The purpose of this article is to analyze some subjective issues for understanding why the killing of workers in the School Domingo Santa María de Iquique, is one of the milestones that inaugurates a new era on the nature of pain and horror in contemporary Chile. Owners of an Enlightenment vision ab...

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Autor: Núñez Rodríguez, Omar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Acta Sociológica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/38775
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/ras/article/view/38775
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Modernity
destiny
moral order
Santa Maria of Iquique
senseless badly
political massacres.
Modernidad
destino
orden moral
Santa María de Iquique
mal del sinsentido
masacres políticas.
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Sumario:The purpose of this article is to analyze some subjective issues for understanding why the killing of workers in the School Domingo Santa María de Iquique, is one of the milestones that inaugurates a new era on the nature of pain and horror in contemporary Chile. Owners of an Enlightenment vision about life, present and future, the cognitive distance that Chilean workers woven in relation to the death in the early twentieth century didn’t allow them to anticipate the complex and contradictory social universe that the modernization involved. Characterized by violent death, severe pain and moral in-justice, the slaughter perpetrated in 1907 turned this educational institution in historic cleaving to the advent of contemporary political massacres and in a symbol of the contradictions that constitute modernity and modernization processes in the twentieth century.