Acerca del alma de los animales

Abstract

This work proposes a reading of Informe sobre ectoplasma animal (2014) by Roque Larraquy and Diego Ontivero. For this, it discusses with the biopolitical readings that consider the animal specters as an image or metaphor of modern human society. By contrast, he affirms the need for a reading that interrogates the problems of animality and spectrality as ethical questions and, therefore, immediately political. This involves distinguishing the notions of soul and spirit, which imply the construction of man as a process of spiritualization.

Keywords

• allegory
• totalitarianism
• Animality
• spectrality
• tanatopolitic