“Evade”. Thinking the Chilean Awakening through the Concept of Multitude
by Andrea Fagioli
pp. 176-193 Issue 13 (7,1) – January-June 2020 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2020.7.1.8
Abstract
This paper focuses on the chilean social uprising that has broken out last october. A lack of politicization has been attributed to the subject of the movement, both in State representation and antineoliberal sense. I propose to change the perspective and to think the subjectivity that emerged and that is still occupying streets and squares of Chile through Paolo Virno, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s concept of multitude. The paper consists in a short introduction; two central paragraphs where I outline a decription of the main characteristics of the chilean model and the significances of the “multitude”; finally I sketch out some final considerations.