Autor/es: Neil Brenner
Tema: Conflicto social
Subtema: Aportes teóricos
Año: 2016
Resumen: The Pacific Trash Vortex is a gyre of garbage located in the Central North Pacific Ocean Whose size, According to conservative estimates, is around 700,000 square kilometers (roughly equivalent to the state of Texas). A «spectacle of disintegration,» as McKenzie Wark Refers to it, This infamous continent of plastic is composed of miniscule fragments of furniture, refrigerators, water bottles, television sets, and cigarette lighters, Among many other objects That populate the everyday fabric of contemporary Such urban life.1 Constellations of flotsam puncturing circling the water’s surface, reshaping the biochemical composition of the ocean and the maritime food chain to biodegrade As They refuse, are woven together by the increasingly complex, mind-boggling metabolic process of urban transformation That defines our current epoch. Far from episodic, the fragmentation of the gyre is then a metaphor and mirror reflection Both of the sheer plunder, unevenness and Disintegration That abounds in densely populated Also areas of the world. The same forces That project Millions of tons of solid waste into the ocean each year produces marginality and social Also in densely populated disintegration Agglomerations. The very Processes That fill the economic cityscapes of the World with luxurious gated communities generate job insecurity Also, gentrification and the unrelenting growth of slums on the outskirts of megacities. The same financial Mechanisms That circulate billions of dollars in asset-backed securities Have Often induced catastrophic busts Which foreclosures inflict mass, Increased insecurity and public health crises in working-class neighborhoods and suburbs.
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