Deploy tact, cultivate memory. The animal and vegetable metaphors in El sistema del tacto by Alejandra Costamagna

Abstract

The autofictional narrator of El sistema del tacto by Alejandra Costamagna works on her family memory according to a vitalistic, ethical and aesthetic concern for her own existence, through which she invites us to think about the process of individual and collective subjectivation outside of the pastoral treat- ment of subjectivities. The animal and plant kingdom provides the narrator with a reservoir of images that allow her to conceive and carry out a horticultural treatment of her memory, that is, an indirect and negative work on its content, by virtue of the purpose of problematizing the pastoral relationship between parents and children, teachers and students, but also between human beings and nature.