The zapatista discourse after Marcos: from fiction to reality or vice-versa

Abstract

This article analyzes one of the most recent communiques made public at the end of December 2017 during the celebration of the 2^nd meeting "Con Ciencias por la Humanidad” by Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano, previously known as Marcos: Trump, Ockham’s Razor, Schrodinger’s Cat, and the Cat-Dog. The aim is to verify that the Zapatista movement has transformed its political strategy in the past three years since the former Marcos made a symbolic relay of his position as spokesman. The hypothesis is that since Marcos became Galeano, Zapatismo has attempted to constitute a new identity based on the need to globalize an anti-system struggle, which communicates to a new social actor: the humanity as a whole. Through the use of concepts as "exotopia", "empty signifier" and "third space" based on the works of Bakhtin, Laclau and Bhabha, respectively, the article proposes that the new social actor is represented by the woman, Marichuy as the political struggle, and by the fictional character, Defensa Zapatista, as the ethical and aesthetical struggle.