An apartment in alto hospicio

chronicles of an inter-species mutation

Abstract

Alto Hospício is a region in the Atacama Desert, Chile, where there is the largest “dump” of discarded clothes from several countries in the global north originating from fast fashion, produced to be used and thrown away. There are 60 thousand tons of clothes discarded every year, the environmental cost of which for the planet is extremely high. In this chronicle I trace narratives about the experience of living in precariousness. The idea is to think of trash, bagaceira, as a space of power, but not only that. I seek to identify the failure of neoliberalism as also a gender defeat. Through the idea of ​​piranha (failure within the category of woman), or piranhidade (as becoming) I seek to build a political imagination that validates the aesthetics of pheisms and camp artificiality (SONTAG), at the same time that I produce theoretical paths in dialogues with Haraway, Despentes, Anzaldúa and Viveiros de Castro. The proposal is to address the relationships we weave between recyclable pieces in a queer composition with other species.