| Summary: | This book comprises fragmented images and stories, which make up the figure of Chile's "main port", beyond the postcard for tourists. Valpo is not a sum of discontinuous events, perhaps it is an orderly system of urban shocks and discontinuities that must always be classified and managed unsuccessfully or in the knowledge that energy loss is fundamental. The key remains what is not or what is missing. A story emerges from these discontinuous images that go from one place to another, from one face to another, all recognizable, without mystery. We are in the period of irremediable transparency. This narrative focuses above all on the raw imagery that has already gone beyond kitsch and that points to the city with an awareness of itself and the production of value. And the action that is marked by the actuality and imminence of urban events, as an axis of this great story that is no longer a possibility, but something that is installed as an active presence. Here there is a beyond of photography, as a kind of social selfie, a self-image of the city as the speculation of an urban self that is raising symbolic capital for an illusory survival.
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