Tecnopoéticasespeculativas de los Fósiles del Futuro: Reflexiones Sobre el Capitalismo Extractivo, la Tecnociencia Fallida y la Crisis Ecológica

This article analyzes the piece “La Sexta Extinción” by contemporary artist Felipe Jácome Reyes and argues that it operates as a speculative technopoetics of the futurethrough a series of fossils that bear witness to a society sustained by an extractive capitalism. It is concluded that the artwork becomes a sort of device of aesthetic andpolitical imagination, which questions the ecological crisis as part of a civilizational crisis anchored to a modern techno-scientific project. From a critique of the extractiveethos −which imposes capital on nature− the artwork invites reflection on the political economy of the technocene and the capitalocene, allowing speculation on the futuristiccartographies of the extractive capital that depredates human and non-human life.