La utopía a prueba: formas heterogéneas de vida en Eugenia de Eduardo Urzaiz

Authors

  • Jorge Quintana-Navarrete Dartmouth College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v44i2.6133

Abstract

This paper analyzes the relationship between life and utopia in Eugenia. Esbozo novelesco de costumbres futuras (1919) by Eduardo Urzaiz. Drawing from notions such as critical utopia (Moylan) and experimental utopia (Abensour), this paper explores how Urzaiz’s novel actively discloses the ambivalences and contradictions inherent to eugenic societies. These instances of contradiction reveal that life, in spite of the set of calculations and technologies trying to encode its constant becoming, is a flux that ends up exceeding every preestablished norm. Eugenia stages the existence of forms-of-life (Agamben) that strive to deactivate the biopolitical control of bodies and populations.

 

 

Published

2021-11-23

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