When your body stops being evidence of your humanity

Today I will discuss four stories written by people who don't remember much about the world before the fall of the Berlin Wall where the body is an ethical and technological focus: "Chunga Maya" by Alejandro Martín Rojas (1984), "Dulce" by Iris Rosales Valdés (1984), "Mulas" (Mules) by Dennis Mourdoch Morán (1985), and "Ojos de cocodrilo" (Cocodrile Eyes) by Malena Salazar Maciá (1988).

Erick Mota writes about the future after your world has ended

SFRA 2024: This paper discusses the strategies used by Erick Mota in his Habana Underguater (2010) to process the economic and political effects of the Berlin Wall fall (1989) on the collective Cuban psyche, positing that this crisis affected the idea of national unity and expectations of collective progress, and its association with European ideals of modernity and implicit social whitening.