THE VULGARITY OF DEMOCRACY explores key aesthetics and affective aspects of democracy via a visual ethnographic exploration of political pornography and the public uses of machismo to construct agendas for popular redemption in Guayaquil Ecuador during the 1980s This period was the beginning of a highly conflictive social process resulting from the imposition of neoliberal policies Its focus is on the life and work of Pancho Jaime 1946-1989 the m...