Abstract

MURILLO, Andrea. “They are Among us”. Mimicry and Disappearance Against Reptilians in Mexico. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2023, vol.59, n.2, pp.69-92.  Epub May 01, 2023. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.2438.

Local experiences in Mexico support that the reptilians are among us. Reptilians, humanoid and reptilian-looking aliens that inhabit Mexico and Earth, pose as humans in order to dominate them. This article explores mimesis, understood as the action of impersonating another, based on the reptilian figure. With specific cases from the west of Mexico, the work refers to the performative mimesis of the voices of the subjects that suggest attending to the reptilian from two particular images: one is his camouflage and the other is his disappearance. The argument presents the familiarity with both images in social life in Mexico. Images that, due to their proximity, sometimes seem strange, almost unexpected. From the analysis of the theories and the narrative logics of people, attention is paid to the mimetic practice of language loaded with imagination, faith and conspiracy, mainly in the pronoun “they”, a linguistic quality that different agents and social groups possess. The “they” acts in closeness and strangeness in the search for subjects in the exercise of power. Mimesis emerges from the pronoun “they” by gathering and expelling trajectories of working life, ephemeral jobs, the fading of the working class, and inconsistencies in regional modernization projects.

Keywords : reptilians; language; power; mimesis; uncanny.

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