Zombis, extraterrestres, vampiros, ángeles caídos, o simplemente: “inmigrantes” y “refugiados”

Abstract

The article's main objective is to examine, from a post-humanist perspective, the so-called "refugee crisis" now being faced by several European countries. In the first part reference is made to a "widespread global climate of exceptional indistinction", where while people live what the EZLN has called the Fourth World War, several dichotomies concatenated with the human / non-human distinction are questioned. In this context, an analysis of the recent US production on film and series of fantasy and science fiction is carried out, highlighting its continuity with processes of hyper-animalization and hyper-humanization of which the aforementioned "refugee crisis" is a good example. The second part of the article can be understood as an imaginary dialogue held between Aimé Cesairé and Mario Vargas Llosa, around the "refugee crisis"; such a dialogue makes it possible to examine how the processes of hyper-animalization and hyper-humanization, occurring on the scene of the Fourth World War, are inseparable from historical dynamics of (colonial) racialization of human populations and the establishment of a capitalist world system, which although today reconfiguring its centers, peripheries and semi-peripheries, preserves and hyperbolises an ideal of humanity embedded in its core.