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 …