“…The Nestornaut appeared on T-shirts, stencils, placards and banners as the symbol of resistance to powers which did not see eye to eye with the State, a power which the then head of state, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, widow of the Nestornaut, was having to confront. There have been other studies -see Scolari (2014), Gago (2015), Francescutti (2015), Vacchieri and Castagnino (2015), as well as my own (Palacios 2012) -which either analyse the figure of the Nestornaut (Francescutti), read it as part of a global history of the character of the Eternaut (Scolari, Gago, Palacios), or see it as an example of transmediation within contemporary Argentine fiction (Vacchieri and Castagnino). Though I draw on these studies here, I focus more on determining what the necessary conditions for the emergence and success of an image like the Nestornaut were.…”