El psicobolche: juventud, cultura y política en la Argentina de la década de 1980

Abstract

This article reconstructs the political and cultural history of a satirical figure, the "psicobolche", as it appeared in 1980s Argentina. Through this figure, the article analyzes the transformations in the relationships among youth, politics, and leftwing culture in the so-called "democratic transition", when an imaginary centered on ideas of revolution problematically coexisted with a language focused on democracy and its virtues. Those tensions erupted in the last third of the decade, and the satirical construction of the "psicobolche" served as a venue for different youth cohorts to publicly discuss on the "crisis of the left" and what was beginning to be known as postmodernism. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]