CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - ALEJANDRA BOTTINELLI The Body at the Boundaries of the End of Time
The research will address the ways in which contemporary fictions of the last decade, staged in the boundaries of time and peripherical territories, imagine the end of the known world and their afterlife from their bodies and affections. We will need to delve into how these fictions jeopardize the body in crisis, faced against the imminence of the end or the decay of the body itself, and the threats of its biomedical and psycho-political control in the context of the limit of experience. At the inception stage, we will think about the affective relationships with the environment in the context of the pandemic threat in the limited spaces of the “confines” (boundaries), of the province, and the periphery of the modern system. At the second stage, we will approach the affective paths proposed by these fictions relating to the boundaries of the end (specifically Latin America and Chilean) in order to face the crises of the models of life, of sensitivity, and of social relations (Guattari 2006) that are imposed by the diverse contemporary threats to life and how they produce, through the apocalyptic genre “masked, encrypted” (Derrida 1994), another imagination of the present; a political critique that shows the present crisis as a crisis of imagination as well as the future.