La Phármaco

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Luz Arcas | La Phármaco

La domesticación (The Domestication)

Chapter I from Tríptico de la Prosperidad (Triptych of Prosperity)

Neoliberalism is a new system of colonisation: it imposes its programme of customs and beliefs with radical violence, condemning the colonised body to a life oriented towards achieving its models: its youth, its success, its sterility and its deterritorialisation. As in old-style colonialism, the last thing that is sought is the independence of the colonised body, its freedom, and to this end it is necessary to erase its memory and dispel any idea of a different future.

Neoliberalism is a perfect fiction, an impeccable application of Aristotelian verisimilitude.

In La domesticación (The domestication), bodies compete to achieve the model that will save them from their own bodies: from hunger, death, fear, memory or illness. Bodies convinced that they must become ‘plausible’ and dilute themselves in the international style in exchange for suffering the most current of tragedies: the awareness of starring in a daily life built on gestures that destroy the world.

La domesticación (The domestication) is the first chapter of Bekristen (Christians), a trilogy that is the result of a Project begun in 2016 in Equatorial Guinea and which reflects on compassion as a human need, social trauma and collective failure.