Violencia, necropolítica y capitalocene en Cromo

Authors

  • María del Carmen Caña Jiménez Virginia Tech

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v42i1.2027

Abstract

This essay examines the presence of spectacular violence in Cromo as a point of entry into the effects of capitalist practices, and analyzes the role of Buenos Aires as a metaphoric space of the global marketplace within the political boundaries of the nation. Parting from theoretical ideas by Rob Nixon (slow violence) and Achille Mbembe (necropolitics) I argue that the disenfranchised citizen lives under the organizing logic of a politics of death. It is through the focus on the different spaces that the series demonstrates how the insatiable desire of late capitalist accumulation affects the individual, nation, and environment.

Published

2018-04-16

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Articles