Chapter 8
In: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions
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Abstract
Since the reopening of the trials for the crimes committed by the last military dictatorship, new aspects have emerged on the scene, one of them being the age-impunity rhetoric. In its visual dimension, we understand this rhetoric to mean the representation of the perpetrators that has been taking shape in recent years, enabling them to be exempted from guilt and responsibility for the crimes committed by virtue of their advanced age. We argue that the visual configures a certain aesthetic that provides a scaffolding for impunity and its naturalization. To construct this representation, we will put in tension the binomial dyad of seen-unseen through photographs and editorials in the written press.