Mutual siege between the beast and the sovereign: disturbing familiarity, dark attraction and fascinating complicity

Authors

  • Aylen Pérez Hernández Universidad de Concepción

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/eees.v32i92.7356

Keywords:

biopolitics, animality, humanism, sovereign, bare life

Abstract

The violence and denial exerted from the western humanist culture towards non-human animals have been recurrently taken as reference points to design modes of oppression within the human species itself. And, from this arrangement of otherness and animal alterity, biopolitical systems have segmented politically recognized human lives (bíos) and lives exposed to vulnerability (zoé). This article questions that thesis and is committed to thinking of the animal as a force that is not opposed to the human, but rather empowers it. For this, the thought of classical authors on the subject is critically reviewed, as well as some concepts immersed in the problem: biopower, bare life, sovereign, homo sacer, among others. The work finally derives in certain approaches aimed at considering the different forms of life in terms of heterogeneities, assemblages and becomings, as well as accepting the unsustainability of all binarism in the face of the powerful presence of a micrology of the multiple.

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Author Biography

Aylen Pérez Hernández, Universidad de Concepción

Periodista Licenciada por la Universidad de La Habana, Cuba, con tesis sobre el testimonio literario latinoamericano. Doctora en Literatura Latinoamericana por la Universidad de Concepción, Chile, con tesis sobre el funcionamiento del binarismo antropocéntrico hombre/animal en obras testimoniales de las dictaduras del Cono Sur. Investigadora del proyecto FONDECYT: “El problema de los animales en las escrituras del yo latinoamericanas de las últimas décadas”. Galardonada en la categoría Doctorando con el Premio Internacional de Ensayos en Humanidades, Ciencias Sociales y Derechos Humanos de la Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina con el trabajo “Tres obras de la dictadura latinoamericana: el hombre-máquina y los mecanismos de poder”. Actualmente iniciando investigación postdoctoral en la Universidad de Valencia, España. Líneas de investigación: literatura latinoamericana, teoría literaria, filosofía, testimonio concentracionario, estudios historiográficos sobre el pasado reciente, animalidad, humanismo y antropocentrismo, biopolítica.

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Published

2025-01-23

How to Cite

Pérez Hernández, A. (2025). Mutual siege between the beast and the sovereign: disturbing familiarity, dark attraction and fascinating complicity. Espiral Estudios Sobre Estado Y Sociedad (eISSN: 2594-021X), 32(92). https://doi.org/10.32870/eees.v32i92.7356

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 92 (2025): Espiral 92 (enero-abril de 2025)

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Teoría y Debate

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