Besar a la mujer araña: memorias improbables para comunidades extáticas

Abstract

Inspired by the SF methodology of Donna Haraway and supported by the reading of El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig, the present work explores the affective-discursive field that traces the figuration of the spider woman, in its displacements and critical reappropriations regarding the discourse of the Hombre Nuevo. This exploration implies, in turn, a presentation of theoretically productive ideas and concepts to problematize the self-naturalized model of time typical of modernity, and a work with alternative temporal models that enables imagining possible ways of touching (with) figures of the “past”. In this sense, this writing also constitutes a commitment to the construction of -unstable, precarious and monstrous- communities through time, as a possible strategy to transform the emotional grammars of the present and increase what bodies can do, or at least change their forms of agency.