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Season 1, Gen X — Episode 31 — No (2012)
· 1 h 03 min · S1 E31
Episode Season 1, Gen X — Episode 31 — No (2012)
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This week, DP heads south. South to Chile — a nation which ended its military junta and dictatorship through an advertising-powered referendum just as the Cold War was ending. Could there be material that's more End of History in its politics?
Chilean director Pablo Larraín seemed to think not — producing his 2012 feature No — half as a celebration of the 1988 presidential referendum's ousting of General Pinochet, and half as a satirical send-up of the growth of political communications through advertising.
What happens when politics is stripped of its substance and rendered as a performative set of vibes?
Find out in today's episode.
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