A life, a living body and a human being traversed by forces that decenter them: the spectral, the animal, the mechanical, the diffuse materiality between the living and the dead. Our historical experience is inseparable from that tension and exploration of the limits of the human from a living being whose demarcation and nature is in permanent dispute. Matías Ayala Munita reads there a biopolitical cartography of the aesthetic and cultural imagination of the present. His Poetics of the Living, the Animal, and the Impersonal map thresholds of contemporary imagination in its encounter with bodies: in its lines of spillage, creation, and struggle.