ESSAY
artwork by DANIEL LEZAMA
all artwork courtesy of galería hilario galguera
gore capitalism, necro-masculinity, and transfeminisms in contemporary mexico
What kind of subjects and practices does the machista reinterpretation of bloody neoliberalism create? What are its most evident social consequences in Mexico? And how can transfeminism redirect and propose other models for the creation of subjects that are not related to the dystopia of gore capitalism, gender violence, or necro-masculinity?
Gore capitalism in Mexico is explicit and unjustified bloodshed (as a price to pay for a Third World that clings to following the logic of capitalism as a form of legitimacy and progress); it is also the very high percentage of viscera and dismemberments frequently combined with organized crime, gender binarism, and predatory uses of bodies. These are reified through the most radical type of violence as a tool of necro-empowerment and machista reaffirmation. As Carlos Monsiváis affirmed…