The search for missing persons

Veritas: Revista de Filosofía y Teología 59:57-83 (2024)
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Resumen El objeto de este estudio es situar la relevancia de la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas en México, desde la Guerra contra el Narcotráfico, como nudo entre mística, filosofía y política. Se abordará, en primer lugar, la “teología del fantasma” como marco en el que se inscribe una extrañeza que sitúa a la desaparición como núcleo de la realidad histórica y subjetiva. Se mostrará, como segundo momento, la relación interna entre la experiencia mística y las fórmulas enunciadas con las consignas y proclamas de familiares en búsqueda de personas desaparecidas, a través de algunas consideraciones realizadas desde el pensamiento de Michel de Certeau en La Fábula Mística. Se abordarán, en tercer lugar, los campos del lenguaje que se dinamizan ligados a una demanda por el cuerpo desaparecido, como hueco en lo real en la trama simbólica que forma una rasgadura que detona experiencias performativas y crítico-afectivas que forjan saberes en duelo, y cuyo vacío cristaliza tanto una convocatoria específicamente metafísica, como la experiencia histórica en la trama de los asuntos humanos. Abstract: The purpose of this study is to situate the relevance of the search for missing persons in Mexico, since the War on Drug Trafficking, as a knot between mysticism, philosophy and politics. In the first place, the "theology of the ghost" will be addressed as a framework in which a strangeness that places disappearance as the core of historical and subjective reality is inscribed. As a second moment, the internal relationship between the mystical experience and the formulas enunciated with the slogans and proclamations of relatives in search of missing persons will be shown, through some considerations made from the thought of Michel de Certeau in The Mystical Fable. Thirdly, the fields of language that are dynamized linked to a demand for the missing body will be addressed, as a gap in the real in the symbolic plot that forms a tear that detonates performative and critical-affective experiences that forge knowledge in mourning, and whose emptiness crystallizes both a specifically metaphysical call, as well as the historical experience in the plot of human affairs.

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Miguel Angel Martinez
Universitat de Valencia

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