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Biocosmism
Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico
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Honorable Mention, Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies AssociationâMexico 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 areasâsuch as Alfonso L. Herrera's plasmogenyâand innovative readings of canonical texts like Vasconcelos's La raza cĂłsmica to examine how biocosmism produced a wide array of utopian projects and theorizations that continue to challenge anthropocentric, biopolitical frameworks.
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 areasâsuch as Alfonso L. Herrera's plasmogenyâand innovative readings of canonical texts like Vasconcelos's La raza cĂłsmica to examine how biocosmism produced a wide array of utopian projects and theorizations that continue to challenge anthropocentric, biopolitical frameworks.
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Publisher
Vanderbilt University PressYear
2024Print ISBN
9780826506511, 9780826506528eBook ISBN
9780826506535Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Alfonso L. Herreraâs Plasmogeny: The Inorganic Life of the Cosmos
- 2. Resurrecting the Past: Animality and Chemical Ethics in Alfonso L. Herrera
- 3. José Vasconcelos: Botanical Ethics and the Cosmic Race
- 4. Dr. Atl and Nahui Olin: Volcanism, Cosmological Forces, and Space Exploration
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index