[2nd print, February 2018]
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
→ Dámaso Randulfe
AMPHIBIOUS CREATURES
→ Michiko Ito
MOVE TO WORK
→ Sophie Dyer & Eline Benjaminsen
SPECTRAL TOPOGRAPHIES
→ Shintaro Miyazaki
ALGORHYTHMIC HORIZON
→ Alexandra Voivozeanu
STRONG CAPITAL, FRAGILE WORKERS
→ Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti
THE HEAVENS
→ Paulo Moreira & Pétur Waldorff
LUANDA’S PLEASURE RESORTS
→ Amie Siegel
QUARRY
→ Maya Ober & Magdala Goldin
POLARIZED MIGRATION
→ Justinien Tribillon
THE PANIC OF 1873
→ Saskia Sassen
EXTRACTION EXPULSION
→ Michaela Büsse & Jariyaporn Prachasartta
THE REMORAS
