| Summary: | This article investigates the various registers of publicizing political crimes. The mode of publicizing torture, as it was set by The National Prison and Torture Commission in Chile (2004), is thus analyzed. Firstly, it is shown how this apparatus achieved the factualization of the crimes as “measurable visible items”. The equivalence relation of the experience of torture, through the production of comparable qualities and quantities, enables the production of an overall vision of the torture. Secondly, the article emphasizes the issue of the limits of the commensurability of experience (especially the traumatic experience). It proposes another mode of publicizing torture that, following Jean-Toussaint Desanti’s theory, I choose to call seeing together: i.e., the formation of a specific look onto the crimes that goes beyond the factual dimension of a visual experience, and that contributes to set the facts in a complex normative network.
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