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Throughout this book posthuman and cyborg realities have always been “about” something else, from surviving dictatorship to not surviving in neoliberalism. In this final chapter I examine a series of articulations of the posthuman that are merely what they are, cyborged subjectivities constructing “like” places to inhabit without much reflection on what caused their appearance. The posthumans that appear in the novels of Rodrigo Fresán and Alberto Fuguet appear as remarkable and unremarkable bodies existing within glocal matrices in highly individualized attempts to construct meaning. In so doing and being, these bodies appear in sharp contrast to the politicized posthumans that occupy Fresán and Fuguet’s literary compatriot Paz Soldán’s narrative. The figures that flit through Mantra (2001) and Por favor, rebobinar (1998) appear as the realities of the age, they are posthuman because there is not another way to be and are interested in the construction of memories and mythologies that explain an existence not obviously marked by political trauma.
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Brown, J.A. (2010). Video Heads and Rewound Bodies: Cyborg Memories in Rodrigo Fresán and Alberto Fuguet. In: Cyborgs in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109773_6
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