In this text I explore the meaning of the Chilean political moment - regarding the social outbreak of October 2019 - as an event, following the philosopher Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek who masterfully present this philosophical concept in many of their works and with full contemporaneity of our reality. Although the concept was already studied by Heidegger and Derrida in the early 20th century. Žižek in his book called: “Event”, explains this concept as: a miraculous journey of being that does not have a precise meaning and that disrupts a reality. For this Slavic author the event is an effect that has exceeded its causes, therefore it has a magical power over the being that experiences it and that goes beyond mere causality, therefore the event has such power that it transforms the life of whoever it is. lives.... [Leer más...]