Imaginaries of Capitalist Destruction in Tikal Futura. Memorias para un futuro incierto (novelita futurista), by Franz Galich
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| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Description: | This article analyzes the novel Tikal Futura. Memorias para un futuro incierto (novelita futurista) (2011), by the Guatemalan author Franz Galich (1951-2007). From an interdisciplinary approach and a Marxist critique of political economy, using Marx´s concept of “metabolic rift,” I argue that Galich's dystopia can be read as a symbolic and critical response to capitalist rationality that conceives of nature as an unlimited source of exchange values. The novel questions neoliberal rationality in which human and non-human nature are seen from the logic of costs and benefits mediating our relationship with the world through the commodity form. Finally, I argue that the novel allows us to read the current environmental crisis through the concept of Capitalocene. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/61635 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/intercambio/article/view/61635 |
| Keyword: | Capitalocene Central American literature metabolic rift capitalist rationality ecological crisis Capitaloceno literatura centroamericana fractura metabólica racionalidad capitalista crisis ecológica literatura centro-americana fratura metabólica racionalidade capitalista crise ecológica |