Tentacular geographies of the eternal youth

19h · Clima Fitness Space (Nave Una, Paseo de la Chopera 14)

Amaia Sánchez Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol will navigate through some of the most paradigmatic case studies that shape the geographies at the service of the search for eternal youth as well as various associated schools of thought, from decadentism to transhumanism or Russian cosmism.

What does eternal life mean? what ontologies and epistemologies of the human are emerging from the scientific-technological developments that seek to extend life? what new extractivisms and transformative economies of territories and bodies are emerging in the environments of this new frontier of knowledge? under what assumptions is the post-human becoming or the cyborg transition imagined? what energetic, material, spatial and discursive implications are hidden behind the creation of digital twins? what new affective paradigms are proposed by digital necromancy? Could decadentism or senescent pride become forms of resistance to the imperatives of somatic optimization? What are the implications of life extension on a planet of limited resources and growing population? Is transhumanism the transposition of the old social classes into the new biological classes? Which bodies have the right to extend their lives and which do not? What does the right to mourn - or grievability, to quote Judith Butler - mean in a necropolitical regime that simultaneously normalizes and sidesteps the confrontation with death?