Abstract

HARAWAY, Donna  and  CAJIGAS-ROTUNDO, Juan Camilo. The Camille stories: children of compost. Nómadas [online]. 2017, n.47, pp.13-45. ISSN 0121-7550.

The article presents the futuristic fiction, "The Camille Stories," as a proposal of immediate possible futures as well as real and improbable present-day contexts. The text positions "The Camille Stories" as a pilot project, a work model and also as an object of play in order to compose collective projects, not only in the imagination, but specifically in writing practices. The article proposes the figure of the palabreros (leaders) of death, whose task it is to feel-think and bring to life new things of the earth, and emerges new forms of life and types of beings who are inhabitants of a planet that is in constant evolution.

Keywords : Children of Compost; symbiote; palabrero of death; monarch butterfly; science fiction.

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