Livre - 2 - Wired Capital

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Livre

Almeida Brito Catarina de

Tribillon Justinien

The contradiction between restrictions imposed on the movement of people and the acceleration in the circulation of goods, services, money—in one word capital—boosted by free-trade spaces and mechanisms is reaching new levels of paradox and absurdity. The spaces and frictions this contradiction creates will be the topic of Migrant Journal’s second issue: Wired Capital. From ‘iceberg houses’ in London designed for the ‘uber-wealthy,’ to the infrastructure of high-frequency trading, from ­Romanian agricultural workers travelling to Spain and ­Portugal every summer to pick strawberries while Portuguese workers harvest grapes in France, to globally-spread offshore accounts.

Editor’s Letter, p. 2 A. RANDULFE Dámaso, Amphibious creatures, p. 8 B. ITO Michiko, Move to work, p. 22 C. DYER Sophie & BENJAMINSEN Eline, Spectral topographies, p. 34 D. MIYAZAKI Shintaro, Algorhythmic horizon, p. 48 E. VOIVOZEANU Alexandra, Strong capital, fragile workers, p. 58 F. WOODS Paolo & GALIMBERTI Gabriele, The heavens, p. 66 G. MOREIRA Paulo & WALDORFF Pétur, Luanda’s pleasure resorts, p. 84 H. SIEGEL Amie, Quarry, p. 92 I. OBER Maya & GOLDIN Magdala, Polarized migration, p. 102 J. TRIBILLON Justinien, The panic of 1873, p. 114 K. SASSEN Saskia, Extraction expulsion, p. 120 L. BÜSSE Michaela & PRACHASARTTA Jariyaporn, The remoras, p. 128 The contributors, p. 138 Colophon, p. 144