from Part I - Security
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2022
Based on close readings of works by poet Gerardo Arana (Bulgaria Mexicalli) and novelists Juan Cárdenas (Encomendar el alma) and José Revueltas (El luto humano), I explore a range of writing strategies that address the challenges posed by the capitalocene, climatic change, and, ultimately, the materially fraught connection of language and production: use of excavation techniques through layers of found language, use of disappropriative tactics to signal the communality of writing practices, use of both human and nonhuman perspectives, use of a-significant semiotic matter, use of deep-time chronologies that transcend life–death dichotomies. As examples of contemporary geological writings, these works question the myth of origin of capitalism and contribute to the unpacking of the secret of accumulation, thus enabling the question about justice.
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