Biocosmism
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Biocosmism

Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico

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Biocosmism

Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico

About this book

Honorable Mention, Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies Association–Mexico Section, 2025

Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the wake of the Revolution. In Biocosmism, Jorge Quintana Navarrete shifts the focus to examine how a group of scientists, artists, and philosophers conceived the manifold relations of the human species with cosmological forces and nonhuman entities (animals, plants, inorganic matter, and celestial bodies, among others).

Drawing from recent theoretical trends in new materialisms, biopolitics, and posthumanism, this book traces for the first time the intellectual constellation of biocosmism or biocosmic thought: the study of universal life understood as the vital vibrancy that animates everything in the cosmos from inorganic matter to living organisms to outer space. It combines both analysis of unexplored areas—such as Alfonso L. Herrera's plasmogeny—and innovative readings of canonical texts like Vasconcelos's La raza cósmica to examine how biocosmism produced a wide array of utopian projects and theorizations that continue to challenge anthropocentric, biopolitical frameworks.

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Information

Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780826506511
9780826506528
eBook ISBN
9780826506535
Topic
History
Subtopic
Mexican History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Alfonso L. Herrera’s Plasmogeny: The Inorganic Life of the Cosmos
  10. 2. Resurrecting the Past: Animality and Chemical Ethics in Alfonso L. Herrera
  11. 3. José Vasconcelos: Botanical Ethics and the Cosmic Race
  12. 4. Dr. Atl and Nahui Olin: Volcanism, Cosmological Forces, and Space Exploration
  13. Epilogue
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index

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