Trauma and Digital Culture in Mariana Eva Perez’s Diario de una princesa montonera

Abstract

This article analyzes trauma and digital culture, focusing on the blog Diario de una princesa montonera by Mariana Eva Perez, which was subsequently published in book form. It is argued that if the digital has involved substantial changes in culture, this also affects the conception of trauma. The article examines the representation of the self in the blog and how this performance contradicts the subjectivity described in the psychoanalytic post-structural model of trauma. After analyzing the importance of the community and “the common”, the space of the blog is addressed as a public/private sphere, interrogating the democratizing potential of this space. Another spotlight is put on the operations of translation involved in the transition from the blog into the printed version.