César Santivañez (santivanezcesar)

Indigenous Futures matter to me because they force a hard question: why do we treat the scientific method as the only legitimate path to knowledge? For centuries, that assumption has shaped modern institutions while sidelining Indigenous epistemologies: knowledge built through long-term relationships with territory, community, and more-than-human life. In many Amazonian traditions, “teacher/mother” plants aren’t framed as recreational hallucinogens, but as ceremonial practices tied to healing, insight, and collective responsibility. I explore this tension in my sci-fi short story “I Speak with a Thousand Voices,” published in La Rivolta degli Oggetti (Italy) and Hipernatura (Peru). I'd love to hear your thoughts! https://paragraph.com/@santivanezcesar-en/i-speak-with-a-thousand-voices

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What if Frankenstein were set not in Europe, but on the streets of Iraq, shaped by an unending inner war? A striking reinterpretation of a classic, enriched by a profound symbolic and political vision. This novel is a true masterpiece. Higly recommended!

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On why I chose Paragraph as an active form of questioning the logics of publication and distribution, and how political the act of publishing really is: https://paragraph.com/@santivanezcesar-en/other-futures-other-infrastructures?referrer=0xc24Ed2756777e9a720dA59268fB45Abe52c82e67

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On why I chose Paragraph as an active form of questioning the logics of publication and distribution, and how political the act of publishing really is: https://paragraph.com/@santivanezcesar-en/other-futures-other-infrastructures?referrer=0xc24Ed2756777e9a720dA59268fB45Abe52c82e67

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What if Frankenstein were set not in Europe, but on the streets of Iraq, shaped by an unending inner war? A striking reinterpretation of a classic, enriched by a profound symbolic and political vision. This novel is a true masterpiece. Higly recommended!

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Indigenous Futures matter to me because they force a hard question: why do we treat the scientific method as the only legitimate path to knowledge? For centuries, that assumption has shaped modern institutions while sidelining Indigenous epistemologies: knowledge built through long-term relationships with territory, community, and more-than-human life. In many Amazonian traditions, “teacher/mother” plants aren’t framed as recreational hallucinogens, but as ceremonial practices tied to healing, insight, and collective responsibility. I explore this tension in my sci-fi short story “I Speak with a Thousand Voices,” published in La Rivolta degli Oggetti (Italy) and Hipernatura (Peru). I'd love to hear your thoughts! https://paragraph.com/@santivanezcesar-en/i-speak-with-a-thousand-voices

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Absolutely agree. In solarpunk, I think that sustainable, healthy landscapes should be a consequence of social reconfiguration. If we don’t challenge existing social structures, we’re just presenting the ills of our time in green packaging. IMO Solarpunk is about people first, and only then about nature and technology.

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