During periods of economic crisis, discourses and practices produced within the social sphere that seek to represent subjectivities in either collective or individual ways can be transformed. Therefore, political institutions’ capacity to explain how society is, how it works and, most importantly, what it should be, tend to stall. In situations such as these, capital cities can become disputed fields of representation and codification of social meanings. My dissertation project examines two different, but closely related events: Argentina’s 2001 currency and debt crisis, and the Spanish economic crisis of 2008. Both critical situations resulted in the emergence of social protest movements: the Argentinazo and 15M (or Indignados), respectively. I focus on Buenos Aires and Madrid as capitals to investigate how these crises have produced a “social crack” in cultural representability and how these changes show themselves in cultural discourses about subjectivity and citizenship. During my summer research, I plan to stay in Madrid throughout June and July to define the configuration of my archive. My objectives are: 1) To collect a representative set of visual and audiovisual items that evince the nature of the 15M movement taken by independent photographers and video makers; 2) To consult non-official archives belonging to grassroots organizations involved in the movement. 3) To interview activists in order to reconstruct and identify some ephemeral political and cultural events that took place during the period of camping and demonstrations but that may have not been recorded in any material source.