Symptoms of another life --
Social debt, silent gift --
Torture, love, and the everyday --
Neoliberal depression --
Community experiments --
Life and death, care and neglect --
Conclusion: relations and time.

Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and made possible through state violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts owed to the population. The state owed a "social debt" to the poor accrued through inequalities generated by economic liberalization, while society owed a "moral debt" to the victims of human rights violations. Life in Debt invites us into lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago. Read less