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DIARIOS DEL ODIO

Journals of Hate is based on readers’ comments published in the electronic editions of Argentina’s major newspapers, where opinion is expressed without restraint. Selected fragments were transcribed directly onto the exhibition walls.

The chosen excerpts reveal discursive nuclei where entire sectors of society are dehumanized. Hatred operates by defining certain groups as social surplus: “shit,” “trash,” “waste.” The other is expelled as excrement from the social body. Medical metaphors also appear—“cancer,” “infection,” “gangrene”—figures that must be cut out, removed.

But hatred is relational: it needs an object. Commentators construct their own identity in opposition to the despised. They call themselves “Argentinian” by vilifying immigrants—“bolita,” “paragua,” “perucho.” They claim whiteness by denigrating people of color; masculinity by humiliating women; education by stigmatizing the uninstructed. They situate themselves as middle class only by degrading the poor. No matter how precarious one’s own condition, it is always possible to imagine someone lower.

These dynamics are not new. At first glance, the comments may seem like anonymous rants. Yet history reminds us that many of the great massacres were preceded by precisely these kinds of dehumanizing discourses—public narratives ignored at the time.

Horacio González
Director of the National Library of the Argentine Republic

"Journal of Hate, it is a prayer, it is an old choir but it is completely modernized and has internal sarcasm, the bodies have all the plasticity of the history of the theater, the choreography, therefore we attend an argument, a great juxtaposition of the theatrical text, of the theatrical game (...) Such an incisive work puts a blade in the heart of the Argentine language, the language of hatred, something like a defiant reflection on what happened this afternoon in the City of Buenos Aires. That is to say, also, the march went to think this city, this city with all kinds of obstacles to think, the construction of the obstacles to think about the form of the city."

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EXHIBITIONS

Journals of Hate

Haroldo Conti Cultural Center for Memory, Buenos Aires, 2019–2020

Journals of Hate

University of Bahía Blanca, Argentina (2019)

Journals of Hate

Casamario Project, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 11 – July 7, 2019

Journals of Hate

Sena Space, New York, September 13 – October 27, 2018

Journals of Hate

El Gran Vidrio, Córdoba (2017)

Journals of Hate

General Sarmiento University, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017)

Journals of Hate

Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016)

Journals of Hate

Center for Contemporary Expressions (2016), Rosario, Argentina

Journals of Hate

National Endowment for the Arts (2014), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Critical Reception and Scholarly Engagement

¿Qué falló en el debate sobre los "discursos de odio"? Progresismo y violencia
What failed in the debate on "hate speech"? Progressivism and violence

By  Luis Ignacio García. Redacción La Tinta, 2024-09-06
https://latinta.com.ar/author/admin/

Negros/as argentinos/as: desbordes del mestizaje blanqueador en los Diarios del odio, de Roberto Jacoby y Syd Krochmalny
Black Argentinians: Excesses of Whitening Mestizaje in Diarios del odio by Roberto Jacoby and Syd Krochmalny

By Julieta Karol Kabalin Campos
https://doi.org/10.15648/cl..36.2022.3852

Derecho y odio(s)
Law and hate(s)

By  Redacción La Tinta, 2023-09-04
https://latinta.com.ar/2023/09/04/derecho-y-odios/

Dar el salto: Odio y mutación
Taking the leap: Hate and mutation

By Gabriel Giorgi, Revista 452ºF, 2023-09-02

By Alejandro Kaufman, 2023-08-15
Artwork: Roberto Jacoby and Syd Krochmalny
Revista Haroldo Conti

Punitivismo y discursos de odio: la construcción del mejor enemigo
Punitivism and Hate Speeches: The Construction of the Best Enemy

By Claudia Cesaroni
Artwork: Roberto Jacoby and Syd Krochmalny
Revista Haroldo, 2023-06-30
https://revistaharoldo.com.ar/nota.php?id=838

By  Alejandro Grimson
Artwork: Roberto Jacoby and Syd Krochmalny
Revista Haroldo, 2023-06-17

Experimentalismo y comunidad. Formas del afecto en Campo minado y Teatro de guerra de Lola Arias y Diarios del odio de Roberto Jacoby & Syd Krochmalny

Experimentalism and Community. Forms of Affection in Minefield and War Theater by Lola Arias and Diarios del odio by Roberto Jacoby & Syd Krochmalny

Rodrigo Montenegro, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 2023-01-31
https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17813

By Marina Franco
Artwork: Roberto Jacoby y Syd Krochmalny
Revista Haroldo, 2023-01-13

​Al odio, con espejo
To hate, with a mirror

Roberto Jacoby & Syd Krochmalny
Los Inrockuptibles, 2022-12-10

Diarios del odio: un arma de combate
Diarios del odio: A weapon of combat

By Gabriela Ram
Agencia Paco Urondo, 2022-11-10

​Diarios del odio
Diaries of Hate

Por Sandra Paul
Teatro y Otras Yerbas, 2022-10-08

Las lenguas del odio. Escritura pública y democracia
The Languages of Hate. Public Writing and Democracy

Gabriel Giorgi
Tropelías, 2022-10-02

DIARIOS DEL ODIO | ODIO AL DÍA
DIARIES OF HATE | HATE OF THE DAY

Kiwi Sainz, DZ Monja
Radio Provincia, 2022-09-08

​Odio libre
Free Hate

Lucía Naser
Brecha, 2022-07-12


El lenguaje inclusivo, los discursos de odio y la lucha mapuche en tres cuadernos para desafiar las convenciones

Inclusive language, hate speech, and the Mapuche struggle in three notebooks to challenge conventions

Sonia Teresa
Página 12, 2022-05-13

​Las formas del odio y las luchas por la dignidad
The Forms of Hate and the Struggles for Dignity

ANA VICTORIA ESPINOZA
Noticias UNaM, 2021-03-24

Biopolítica, lenguaje y comunidad: Aproximaciones críticas a Diarios del odio de Jacoby & Krochmanly

Biopolitics, Language, and Community: Critical Approaches to Diarios del odio by Jacoby & Krochmanly​

Rodrigo Montenegro
Revista del Centro de Letras Hispanoamericanas, 2020-07-02

Ariel Schettini
Revista Otra Parte, 2020-07-20

​Taller de creación performática: Incorporaciones
Performative Creation Workshop
A partir de Diarios del odio, de Roberto Jacoby & Syd Krochmalny

Silvio Lang (ARG) and Rodolfo Opazo (CHL)
2019-04

Diarios del odio
Diaries of Hate​

Sandra Paul
Teatro y Otras Yerbas, 2018-10-08

​Las lenguas del odio. Escritura pública y democracia
The Languages of Hate. Public Writing and Democracy

Gabriel Giorgi,
New York University
2018-10-02

La construcción del otro como objeto del odio extremo
The Construction of the Other as an Object of Extreme Hate

Lali Destéfanis
Sonnambula
2018-04

​La literatura y el odio. Escrituras públicas y guerras de subjetividad
Literature and Hate: Public Writings and Subjectivity Wars

Gabriel Giorgi
Revista Transas
​2018-04

Diarios del odio – Diario del macrismo
Diaries of Hate – Diary of Macrism​

Silvio Lang
Lobo Suelto
2017-12-27


Diarios del odio (Teatro) - Los unos y los otros
Diaries of Hate (Theater) - The Ones and the Others

Daniel Gaguine
El Caleidoscopio de Lucy
​2017-11-10

​Diarios del odio o cómo hacer arte de la mierda
Diaries of Hate or how to make art from crap​

Agustín Pisani
​Agencia Paco Urondo
2017-10-29

​Los cuerpos del odio: “Diarios del odio”, retrospectiva
The Bodies of Hate: “Diaries of Hate”, Retrospective

Michel Nieva
Hindie Hoy, 2017-08-24

​¿Para qué sirve esa obra de arte?
What Is the Purpose of This Artwork?​

Radio Contacto​
2016-04-13

Los diarios del odio, de Roberto Jacoby y Syd Krochmalny
Diaries of Hate, by Roberto Jacoby, and Syd Krochmalny

Los Inrockuptibles
2014-12-10

Diarios del odio en Miradas al Sur
Diaries of Hate in Miradas al Sur

Miradas al Sur
2014-11-25

Los diarios del odioThe Diaries of Hate

Jota
Mundo Flaneur
2014-11-20

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