The Animal Clue to In-signifying Power: the Case of El Eternauta

Abstract

This paper focuses on tangential figurations of the “animal question”. Starting from the difficulty to avoid reproducing the Great Divides that Donna Haraway observes in many theorists in the field of animal studies, and from Cornelius Castoriadis’ analysis of the institution and reproduction of power divisions, I follow the animal trail in some of Marx’s methodological reflexions and in the science fiction Argentinian comic El Eternauta (1957-59) by Héctor G. Oesterheld and Solano López.