Postcards from Chile and Images from an Archive

This article examines a mass produced postcard image as a picture of conflict. It considers the postcard as a Benjaminian ‘prismatic fringe’ through which an archive can be viewed, wherein documents of the British trade in Chilean nitrate are juxtaposed with those of General Pinochet’s 1973 military coup. The archive itself is explored as a site of loss and its postcard, an unvarying idealisation, as a particularly problematic but powerful image that renders conflict out of sight

Art · Geography · Nitrate · Optics · Physics · Sight · Visual arts · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Ecology

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• The Enganche in the Chilean Nitrate Sector, 1880-1930

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• Between Memory and History

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• Harold Blakemore (1930-1991)

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• Nitrate Crises, Combinations, and the Chilean Government in the Nitrate Age

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