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«One might say that it is easier to imagine the end of the world, and the end of capitalism, than it is to think outside the structuring fantasies of gender. There must always be an active male heroism driven by a feminine fragility that appears to hold the promise of the future. Explicit narratives of this form, such as Children of Men (2006) in which a world that has stopped breeding is given feeble hope in the form of a young pregnant woman to be saved by the male lead, are surrounded by less overt regressions to the romance plot and its variants. The Walking Dead (2010), I am Legend (2011), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), 28 Days Later (2002)—all these imaginings of the end of the world nevertheless remain with a sentimental Oedipal structure of the family. It might make sense to think in Deleuze and Guattari’s terms that ‘becoming-woman’ is the key to all becomings (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, 291): gender and sexual binaries seem to be the last archaism in a world that is elsewhere happily posthuman.

“Hacemos rizoma con nuestros virus, o más bien nuestros virus nos obligan a hacer rizoma con otros animales. Como dice Jacob, las transferencias de material genético por virus u otros procedimientos, las fusiones de células procedentes de especies diferentes, tienen resultados análogos a los de los amores abominables tan apreciados en la Antigüedad y en la Edad Media. Comunicaciones transversales entre líneas diferenciadas que borran los árboles genealógicos. Buscar siempre lo molecular, o incluso la partícula submolecular con la que hacemos alianza. Más que de nuestras enfermedades hereditarias o que tienen su propia descendencia, evolucionamos y morimos de nuestras gripes polimórficas y rizomáticas. El rizoma es una antigenealogía.” (Mil mesetas)