A New Nature is coming. We will be repossessed, and the Spectres of the Post-Natural will take the world. Predictions of a new Symbiotic Earth in "Fafner" (2018) by Daniel Perez Navarro

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Miguel Angel Albújar-Escuredo, The University of KansasFollow

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This paper engages in the debates about decentralizing the role of men in the world we live in. Byproducts of this new mindset are concepts such as the “Posthuman” (Braidotti 2012); the status of “Holobiont” (Haraway 2016), and the experiencing of a new “Coexistence” with the non-human (Morton 2018). I suggest the novel Fafner (2018) as a perfect sample of this intellectual debate from an artistic and fictional view. Using concepts from diverse fields of thinking and applying them to literary analysis, this paper will review the in-depth transformation of nature portrayed by Fafner’s narration. Additionally, it will accomplish a comparative analysis between Fafner and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation (2014). The intended goal will be to map the fictionalization of one possible evolution and adaptation of humankind due to the encounter with a non-human form far more predatory than what we are used to experiencing.

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Albújar-Escuredo, Miguel Angel (2024) "A New Nature is coming. We will be repossessed, and the Spectres of the Post-Natural will take the world. Predictions of a new Symbiotic Earth in "Fafner" (2018) by Daniel Perez Navarro," Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 , Article 4.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/alambique/vol10/iss1/4