Mexican rural communities suffer significant impacts on the health of their population due to the application of pesticides that contaminate local air, water, soil, and food. Prolonged exposure to these toxic substances affects the long-term health of the population, especially children, who are extremely vulnerable to damage to their physical and neurocognitive development. This problem is analyzed in the context of industrial and extractive agriculture, which focuses on monocultures for national and export markets within the framework of a lax and permissive behavior of the Mexican state that protects neither the health of workers nor the rights of children to a healthy life. This article presents the results of a case study in a rural locality in a region of intensive agriculture. Two urine samples were taken from 180 schoolchildren, ages 3-14, to analyze their exposure to pesticides in a mass chromatograph; the samples were supplemented with a survey of their families and an ethnographic study.

Our work is framed in certain discussions around the anthropobscene. It problematizes marks of damage and resistance of mining extractivism in territory. From a speculative game with the representation of Peirce's triadic sign, we think of the inverted triangle -open pit- as a performative figure to read a corpus produced from fragments of Historia de la Mineria en Argentina (Segemar, 2004) as a key to an extractive semiotics. As a practice of memory arts of human and non -human resistances to mining extractivism, we recover the concept of geopoiesis as a possible derivation of sympoiesis. It generates -with the organic and the inorganic, that which lives at the level of the soil, subsoil, and atmosphere and in material continuity with its astral natur. We think of writing as a practice of the arts of memory and of remaking shelters. Therefore, certain edaphographies are part of a geological and cosmological writing: cosmographies.