Infrapolitics and the Thriller: A Prolegomenon to Every Possible Form of Antimoralist Literary Criticism. On HÉctor Aguilar CamÍn’s La Guerra De Galio and Morir En El Golfo

Abstract

If the history of thought is a history of murder, as Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno claim in their Dialectic of Enlightenment (117), why couldn’t the history of murder become a history of thought? We can link the literary treatment of murder, which seeks to unveil it, not just to express it, with the narrative form called “thriller.” The thriller constitutes the dominant and perhaps even normative narrative structure of our time. A thriller is, in every case, an ethical aestheticization of politics. It renders the political in a narrative form, and it does so from a primarily ethical stance. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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