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Cecilia Sánchez
Through the interrogation of the blurred frontier between power over life and its potency, a series of contemporary Latin American novels problematize the relations between aesthetics, politics, and the living by the invention of modes of shared life. The novels Inclúyanme afuera (2014) by María Sonia Cristoff, and El animal sobre la piedra (2008) by Daniela Tarazona, configure experiments of the common that find an aesthetic and political productivity of the living in affect—understood as the threshold between the cohesion and the disintegration of bodies—that cannot be captured by the logic of biopower. Unsettling the boundaries between human and animal, and between the organic and the inorganic, both novels pose the problem of the norm as a mutation immanent to the living, while simultaneously exploring the dynamism of matter and its capacity to express itself in new configurations. In this sense, the novels also elaborate a language that, far from any regime of representation, operates as a mode of experimentation and composes forces that arrange or disintegrate the borders between bodies.
