Immune Censorship of the Controversy in the Official Peronist Aesthetic Program (1946-1952)

Abstract

In order to expand earlier researches about the translation produced in peronist visual textuality as an assimilation device, the following paper proposes an analysis of the mechanisms of perceptual censorship strategically activated in the official peronist aesthetic program to regulate the inferential movements of its reception and to close its final interpretation. Contrary to other co-textual visual political propaganda, in the peronist enunciation it is noticed an intentional signic absence of the enemy to the advantage of a redundant, singular and affirmative stylization of the peronist political subject. Based on this, it is argued that this phenomenon of censorship of the otherness (secondness) and of consequent monadic modeling of the sameness (firstness) would evidence a perceptual regulation in the official aesthetic program that would operate as an “immunitary” proscription mechanism of any different signal production in order to build and regulate a hermeneutic community (i.e. to expand a semiotic hegemony). Thus, the aim is to confirm the mediated condition of the perception and, above all, to reaffirm the ethical thickness of the text as its natural implication with the otherness.