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Rebobinar 2: De la muerte y otras coartadas
REBOBINAR 2:
DE LA MUERTE Y OTRAS COARTADAS.
Diciembre del 2013.
“Uno sabe que ha muerto cuando las
cosas que lo rodean han dejado de
morir.”
Elías Contreras.
Profesión: Comisión de Investigación del EZLN.
Estado Civil: Difunto.
Edad: 521 años y contando.
Es madrugada, y si a mí me preguntaran, que no lo han hecho, diría que el problema con los muertos son los vivos.
Porque luego suele aparecer esa disputa absurda, ociosa e indignante por su ausencia.
Rewind 2:
On Death and Other Alibis.
December 2013.
“One knows one has died when
everything around them has
stopped dying.”
Elías Contreras.
Profession: EZLN Investigation Commission.
Civil Condition: Dead.
Age: 521 years old and counting.
It is before dawn, and, if they should ask me, which they haven’t, I would say that the problem with the dead is the living.
Because in their absence, you tend to get that absurd, meaningless, and outrageous argument: “I knew them/ saw them/ was told by them,” really just an alibi that hides the real statement “I am the administrator of that life because I administer its death.”
It’s something like having a “copyright” on death, thus converting it into merchandise that can be possessed, exchanged, circulated, and consumed. There are even historiographical books, biographies, museums, commemorations, theses, newspapers, magazines, and colloquia for this.
REBOBINAR 3.
Que explica el porqué de ese extraño título y de los que le seguirán, que narra el excepcional encuentro entre un escarabajo y un ser desconcertante (quiero decir, más desconcertante que el escarabajo), y las reflexiones no coyunturales y sin importancia que en él se dieron; así como la forma en la que, aprovechando un aniversario, el Sup intenta explicar, sin lograrlo, cómo ven l@s zapatistas su propia historia.
Here we explain the reasons behind this strange title and those that will follow, narrate the story of an exceptional encounter between a beetle and a perplexing being (that is, more perplexing than the beetle) and the reflections of no immediate relevance or importance which occurred therein; and finally, given a particular anniversary, the Sub tries to explain, unsuccessfully, how the Zapatistas see their own history.
