Modern Subject in a Countercultural Key: the “Child” in the Work of Valeria Correa Fiz
Modern Subject in a Countercultural Key: the “Child” in the Work of Valeria Correa Fiz

Summary/Abstract: This article explores child cruelty in Condición animal [Animal Condition] by ValeriaCorrea Fiz as a device for dismantling the liberal humanist notion of the subject, throughthe lens of the ontology of precariousness (Butler) and the notion of human animalityevoked in the title. The stories analysed depict violence as inherent to all materialexistence, including childhood – not to empower the child within the modern logicthat equates violence with agency, but rather to deconstruct childhood itself and, withit, the very foundation of the modern subject. The epistemic uncertainty generated bythis representation reorients subjectivity toward a corporeal and vulnerable existence,simultaneously capable of inflicting and suffering harm.

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