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up including people for whom we haven’t even been able to find out their names even though they are in the narrative. We have to try to fit even the smallest pixel in there. Instead of outlining well-known figures or generalizing, I put more effort into making sure a wide variety of voices and figures is heard. Therefore, in the maximum enlargement of a photograph, you can still see silhouettes. Even if that’s all they are, the silhouettes are still there. My work is one of historical pixilation. Every narration is about a subject; it tells someone’s story. However, in this case, the kind of story I’m interested in isn’t that of a country or nation but of certain individuals. That is a materiality I can hold on to. More than individual experiences, I’m talking about lives lived interdependently, in community. The only historiographical measurement category I have found to be democratic is life itself. That is the only category I can guarantee empirically: people’s lives and communities. It’s the only place where I believe one can articulate a history of civil society. I hadn’t made any of those decisions a priori before I began this research. On the contrary, they evolved during the process and developed thanks to the research itself. My awareness of these decisions is intricately tied to the world I am talking about.
The Biopolitical Body of the Franco Dictatorship AFS Germán, I think a good starting point to discuss your book is your reflection on what you call “the biopolitical body of the Franco dictatorship.” You don’t consider the Franco regime to be simply an authoritarian institutional regime and a series of ideological convictions but more the production and reproduction of a type of body. That starting point will allow us to better understand how you deal with the countercultural revolt later on. If it’s alright with you, let’s get started by talking about the internal dictatorship. How did you come up with that concept, and what does it involve? GLM It’s an idea I’ve developed based on Teresa Vilarós’s book, El mono del desencanto (The monkey of disenchantment). Teresa approaches the somatic dimension of the Franco dictatorship as a Carta(s)
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