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This seminar explores the convergence of toxicity and space, politics and affect in Latin America through an analysis of literary fiction, poetry, films and visual art. We pay close attention to the politics of contamination, its effects in both the space and the body, as well as in communal efforts undertaken by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities that look at alternative methods to make sense of everyday life stories and environmental disasters. These stories originate from the margins and aim at uncovering the vibrant matter of daily contamination and bodily experiences. Some questions we will address are: How are the imaginaries of sickness informed by the continual increase of toxicity in both urban and rural areas? How do they imagine life and how do they contribute to a new understanding and conceptualizations of biological life, human and non-human? This class is taught in Spanish.