Cocinar la mutación: Tecno-poéticas de lo comestible y afecto posthumano en la ciencia ficción cubana contemporánea

Abstract: This article explores the intersection of food, technology, and power in contemporary Cuban science fiction and proposes that, in this field, the kitchen becomes a posthuman decolonial “technopoetics”: a “technical-aesthetic dispositif” that reassembles bodies and affects in the face of the postsocialist crisis. Through an analysis of the short stories “Mousse de biochocolate espacial…” by Yoss, and “Pollitos en el espacio” by Marié Rojas Tamayo. The article examines how the culinary operates as “sentimental engineering” and as “biopolitical insurrection.” The essay concludes with an analysis of the film Omega 3 (Eduardo del Llano), arguing that its satire performs a form of “cinematic anthropophagy” that symbolically devours the remnants of revolutionary utopia. Drawing on a theoretical framework that combines posthumanism (Braidotti), gastropolitics (Appadurai; Climent-Espino), carnism (Joy), theories of the abject (Kristeva), and readings of cannibalism as a cultural trope (Jáuregui), the article argues that these works reinscribe the cannibal trope to stage the collapse of the fiction of Cuba as a biotechnological power, moving beyond “ruin porn” to propose a speculative laboratory for thinking historicity and desire.