From Cyberspace to the War of the Canaimés: Images that Come to Life and Art as a Pitfall

Abstract

The article introduces some reflections on the effects of everyday interactions in cyberspace and its intensification during the pandemic. One of them is that the constant mediation of technology in the generation and archiving of our memories is diluting fixed demarcations between human beings and the machines. We then propose a speculative path through recent theories in aesthetics and anthropology, seeking to account for these hybridizations, radically rethinking the dualisms central to our thinking (nature and culture, human and non-human, masculine and feminine, the self and the other). Throughout the article, disparate objects will be addressed, such as the partial perspectives of philosopher Donna Haraway, and the poetical traps created by Jaider Esbell, artist, activist, and writer.

Keywords:
Crisis of Representation; Jaider Esbell; Donna Haraway; Cyberspace