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William R. Benner
Albertina Carri's highly experimental film Los rubios (2003) has become the precursor of a narrative tendency among second generation artists to look past the highly politicized image of the disappeared developed in the 1990s. Carri's film made an inaugural gesture by developing a narrative that embraces the fragmentary nature of memory, thus reenergizing our critical understanding of disappearance. Second generation writers like Félix Bruzzone, Ernesto Semán, Angela Urondo Raboy, and Mariana Eva Perez, have continued to explore the ethical implications of this new perspective on disappearance. Building from these observations, I incorporate recent studies on memory entrepreneurship to claim that the blog Diario de una princesa montonera 110%-verdad by Mariana Eva Perez honors disappearance by creating a virtual space to communicate trauma and debate its meaning as a community. Specifically, I examine the feedback loop which is generated in the exchange of responses and comments between author and readers. As this "loop" is special to the blog format, I argue that it allows the reader to take an active role in the artistic production of the blog. To date, there is a lack of critical understanding of how blogging has influenced both local and international memory and identity politics. The practice of blogging shapes the way in which Mariana Eva Perez remembers disappearance: it enables an active debate around its meaning, and it gives those indirectly affected a chance to contribute to her own artistic endeavors.
