Finance, extraction and logistics as axes of the third neoliberal moment in Latin America

With the notion of ‘operations of capital’, focused on the interaction between the dimensions of finance, extraction and logistics, authors such as Mezzadra and Neilson have highlighted some ‘underlying transformations of capitalism’ that go well beyond a generic idea of neoliberalism as ‘the hegemonic circulation of economic doctrines or processes of deregulation and governance’. The …

Tangling a bi-oceanic corridor

In this short essay I want to accept this invitation and initiate a reflection from an excentric site, ‘following things’ across multiple sites (Cook, 2004) along the Chilean-Argentinian section of a bi-oceanic corridor hosting the first stretch of a li-ion supply chain. Li-ion batteries are an indicative, globally diffused product sustaining the world’s transition away …

Geopolítica de la fragmentación y poder infraestructural. El Proyecto One Belt, One Road y América Latina

El artículo busca reflexionar sobre la forma en que, a partir de la década de 1970, se ha producido una “geopolítica de la fragmentación”, referida a la forma fragmentaria de producción del espacio capitalista mundial que tiende, al mismo tiempo, hacia procesos de diferenciación y desarrollo desigual, así como a otros de nivelación e igualación …

Sciopero generale dei portuali cileni: blocco dei porti e mobilitazione internazionale

Lo scorso 21 ottobre il sindacato di lavoratori portuali chileno, Unión Portuaria de Chile, ha dato il via a uno sciopero indefinito contro la repressione, lo Stato d’Eccezione e il coprifuoco, decretati e attuati dal governo di Sebastián Piñera in risposta all’insurrezione popolare (segnaliamo questo post di Nicolas Palacios che spiega brevemente come mai il …