The real contains all its past. Spectra Report

• Main Author: Gabriel Giorgi
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata 2015-09-01
• Series: Estudios de Teoría Literaria
• Subjects: biopolítica; espectros; temporalidades no; humanas
• Online Access: http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/1311

Informe sobre ectoplasma animal (2014), de Roque Larraquy y Diego Ontivero reflects what we could call a “biopolitical imagination”, inscribing non-human temporalities as a reconfiguration of notions such as “memory”, “humanness” and the definition of the political itself. By narrating the scientific fiction about the “ectografía”, a science destined to make visible the “ectoplasm” of dead animales, the text imagines a new continuum between specters, animals and political masses, especially around the 1930 coup d’Etat in Argentina. Between the animal and the spectral, the Informe… frames a matter of the political that revolves less around subjectivity or the social than around the management of the threshold between life and death, and around an administration of the spectral. The kernel of the political –its imaginaries, its knowledges– is defined by a matter that no longer coincides with the human, and traces the coordinates of a biopolitics in which “bios” refers not a “vital essence” but the unstable, mobile threshold between life and death.