In this approach we will talk about the traces of pre-Columbian knowledge about cinchona, as well as about existing knowledge about similar plants at the same time. The work of the table consists of trying an initial reconstruction, from scraps, of the cosmotechnics of South America from the point of view of the cinchona. For this, a counterpoint will be proposed between ancestral knowledge, historical-economic studies and contemporary philosophies dedicated to the problem of vegetal existences (memory, stones, trees, etc.).

In this approach we will discuss the place of cinchona in the gestation of one of the central antecedents in the genealogy of narco-politics in colonial times. For this, we will approach from the political economy the phenomena of transformation of cinchona into a commodity linked to smuggling, pharmaceutical proto-cartels, clandestine laboratories and a certain logic of value-power that redistributes the system of domination over the biotic and abiotic fields. In this way, we propose to think of cinchona as a vector of narco-imperial deterritorialization, emphasizing the assemblage between the migratory flows of the plant, the economic flows of the market and the colonial desires that reconfigure the territories of domination. Here, cinchona is thought of from the narcotic or pharmaceutical angle, as a machine of desiring production and territorial dispossession.

In this approach we start from a spectral approach to address the necropolitical vector, the colonial production of death and the generation of certain spectral ecologies that maintain a certain political force in their condition of massive absences and holes in the being with the capacity to affect the current reality. In this sense, a philosophical and political meditation on the effects of extinction, massacre and subjugation on humans and non-humans is proposed, with a view to imagining the conditions for an ecology of the dead. Spectral assemblages between plants and humans could hypothetically compose a thanatotope in which the cinchona as a spectralizing factor is a plant carrying different degrees of reality, and coagulating different modes of existence.

In this approach we propose to think about what it would mean to fabulate with this tree as a catalyst for change at a political and aesthetic level. This approach will allow us to rethink the links between harvesting, the life of this plant, fiction and politics. In this space we will produce variations and versions of what it would mean to recreate the future, the bonds of affection and interspecies relations. In this sense, the space has the vocation to provoke a conversation about the forces of vital transformation of an imagination that is nourished by history, challenges the plantationocene and creates from the vibrations of this tree.