ABSTRACT
On April 14, 2016, the Spanish newspaper El Pais published an article about the exploitation of African immigrants in the Catalan meat-processing industry. The article reported that a worker had been abused by his boss, when he demanded respect for his labour rights. On the other side of the ideological spectrum, in Venezuela, the regulatory mechanisms of the so-called twenty-first-century socialism are, paradoxically, equally thanatical. Researchers like Cary Wolfe and Gabriel Giorgi have established a fundamental analogy between the binaries with which the West considers social identities, and the "discourse on the species", which establishes human superiority and the hegemony of humanity over the rest of animals. In effect, the Cuban official discourse established a historical genealogy that connected the nineteenth-century struggles for emancipation with the struggles for national liberation in the African continent in the twentieth century. Roberto Esposito proposes the concept of immunity to consider mechanisms that foreclose connections with others.
