The Human Condition.
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...As Arendt (1958) might have argued, he offers them reification as visual documentation, and thence the possibility of remembrance....
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...It is an inscription that in its refusal to allow the process of ruination – the tendency of the world, as Arendt would have it – to win out, holds onto something for a (democratic, non-violent) future-to-come. And it does so here, of course, because this is the site of numerous acts of State violence. The activities at ESMA contribute to the campaign to preserve this site, to reclaim it as a space that proclaims the importance of remembrance, to preserve it as a space where people will give time to the past as a safe-guard for the future. Furthermore, it is of course significant what Barrio is drawing. His ‘Gliptodonte’ stands as a warning about the human process of historiography, since, as Barrio explains on his blog, the excavation of fossils of these prehistoric creatures has also been the site of errors. In the nineteenth century, a new species of gliptodonte – the ‘Glyptodon clavipes’ – was recorded, discovered by a palaeontologist named Richard Owen, only later to be proven to be a mistake, an error arising from the misreading of fossils from two different creatures as if they were one. The artwork stands as a warning, therefore, about the provisional nature of scientific truth. That something is recorded does not of course mean that it is True. Wherever there is conflict about the events and meaning of the past, there is a need to heed such a warning. At ESMA, this has of course been the battle, and the opening of the criminal trials notwithstanding, remains the concern. To confer value on something, to remark upon it, is to aid the possibility of its enduring through time; endurance is not a quality of a thing, but is an achievement (remembering the arguments of Whitehead, 1925 [1948])....
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...To conclude, the notion of civil association and the civil condition underline a view of politics as a human activity fostered by deep pluralist values, perhaps best accounted for by Oakeshott’s contemporary Hannah Arendt (1958) as a political rather than a social commitment....
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