POLICIES AND SUBJECTIVITIES OF THE NON-HUMAN IN JULIO CORTÁZAR

Man. Animal. Anthropological machine. Julio Cortazar.

This study aims to investigate the presence of the non-human in Julio Cortázar's literature based on Bestiário (1951). Based on the reflections of Gabriel Giorggi, Giorgio Agamben, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, we seek to affirm the animal in Cortázar as the instance that questions the status of the human, defined by the "anthropological machine of humanism" (AGAMBEN, 2006 , p. 63), according to anthropocentric criteria, considering race, ethnicity, sexuality, language, rationality and genetic integrity. In this direction, it will be verified, in Cortázar's literary universe, the man, linked to certain forms of indigence, positioning himself in front of his animality, not only to question the technologies of power over life, but also to raise forms subject alternatives. In short, we will observe the construction of new economies, both of life and death, new body grammars and subjectivities beyond the subjects through the animal, as a virtual sign and agent of becomings, thus constituting uncharted territories of the posthuman.