The Latin American utopian thinking as overcoming the alignment

Abstract

The reflections on the figure of Caliban have been fruitful in Latin American thought, especially in terms of utopia as a political horizon, but the image of the zombie has been present basically in cinematographic narratives. In the present text, I try to highlight the contrasts that we can find between the zombie narrative and the proposal of the philosopher Horacio Cerutti who assumes the task of liberation from what no living dead can do: think. It is by contrasting the figure of the zombie with that of the day dreamer as we could find clues that allow a liberating thought that starts from a meticulous analysis of the current situation, as well as the value of the political and sociocultural models that from that analysis they detach, to live in a truly human way.