In this essay, I analyze the science fiction narrative of the film District 9 as a dismantling device for the biopolitical strategies of contemporary liberal democracy. While obscenely legitimizing the utilitarian, post-colonial, and violent characteristics of its forms of representation and subjectivation, the film shows how this global order also sediments epistemic dogmas and regimes of truth, camouflaged through its multicultural recognition policies. As a counterpart, I identify the empathetic relation of the protagonists, and their seek for other possible bonds between the various human and non-human manifestations, making their conditions of possibility visible in the fictions of encounter that the narrative poses to spectators performative imitation. Finally, although I focus on textual interpretation, the predominant approach in the field of film studies, I outline the film’s ...

In this essay, I analyze the science fiction narrative of the film District 9 as a dismantling device for the biopolitical strategies of contemporary liberal democracy. While obscenely legitimizing the utilitarian, post-colonial, and violent characteristics of its forms of representation and subjectivation, the film shows how this global order also sediments epistemic dogmas and regimes of truth, camouflaged through its multicultural recognition policies. As a counterpart, I identify the empathetic relation of the protagonists, and their seek for other possible bonds between the various human and non-human manifestations, making their conditions of possibility visible in the fictions of encounter that the narrative poses to spectators performative imitation. Finally, although I focus on textual inte...

In recent years, the emergence of multiple crisis in the midst of the celebrations of the bicentennial have wither the nationalist discourse and politics that encouraged symbolic national fervor and identity in Peru. This study discusses a few contemporary moments of nationalist appeal, by tackling them from their mutual transitions and intertwining narrative, and by critically dismantling cultural objects of mass circulation that symbolize the nation from different ideological standpoints and affective horizons. By drawing a distinction between the historiographical studies on nationalism, which focus on the debate over perennialist approaches based on the ancestral origins of nations, and on the other hand, the modern paradigm, a constitutional and constructed national identity, I focus on the strategies and tactics through which nationalist fabrications settle in the subjectivities an...

In this essay, I analyze the science fiction narrative of the film District 9 as a dismantling device for the biopolitical strategies of contemporary liberal democracy. While obscenely legitimizing the utilitarian, post-colonial, and violent characteristics of its forms of representation and subjectivation, the film shows how this global order also sediments epistemic dogmas and regimes of truth, camouflaged through its multicultural recognition policies. As a counterpart, I identify the empathetic relation of the protagonists, and their seek for other possible bonds between the various human and non-human manifestations, making their conditions of possibility visible in the fictions of encounter that the narrative poses to spectators performative imitation. Finally, although I focus on textual inte...