Studies on Happiness: Alfredo Jaar and the shuddering of enjoyment Alfredo Jaar and the Shuddering of Enjoyment
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This article addresses the Studies on Happiness project (1979-1981) by Alfredo Jaar through an interdisciplinary discussion that crosses aesthetic, historical, philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches. Studies and its question aimed to intervene during the dictatorship but also they over-flow in the democratic and neoliberal society as a questioning about political subjectivity and hegemony. This article analyzes the cuasi-invisibility during the dictatorship and the later “visibility” that “frame” this work. Jaar’s work unworks itself in its desistance, finding perhaps an infrapolitical space where enjoyment starts to shake the political.
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