°Borders 2.0

August 14, 2008

Here’s the full version of “Borders 2.0: Future, Tense”. The attribution should read “… with thanks to Brett Neilson, Bryan Finoki, Melinda Cooper, Aren Aizura and Randy Martin”, and I’d prefer that it did from now on. That being a far less indifferent version of the content (which is to say, the politics), the conversations surrounding the text and which informed its argument, the caveat about responsibility applying.

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  1. Just read your article last night

    “… Just as new instruments of financial debt and … were exported from their post-colonial laboratories situated beyond Europe and the United States…”

    “… tweaked by sub-prime loans and derivatives tested in Latin America …”

    the article also mentions the IMF, is the first statement referring to structural adjustment etc and things like micro-credit or something else ?

    Do anyone have a pointer to info on a history of sub-prime and derivatives in Latin America ?

    Ta

    v

    dr.woooo [August 18, 2008 @ 3:35 am]

  2. On history, there is the collapse of Bretton Woods, Chicago, Chile, and Milton Friedman. There were floats, and there was (some rather bloody) superfluidity … and lots of betting on (the likely betting on) future capacity (potentiality) … A history which is easier to assume if you were born before the onset of so-called neoliberalisation. But it was Randy Martin who in conversation sharpened some of that argument about testing history - seemed to me like a significant piece of the puzzle.

    I don’t understand your question about SAP’s and micro-credit. They’re both forms of debt, yes?

    s0metim3s [August 19, 2008 @ 1:38 am]

  3. There’s a new book by Marcus Taylor, From Pinochet to the Third Way: Neoliberalism and Social Transformation in Chile (2008), Zed books I think, which details some of these experiments. Haven’t read it yet but there’s some excerpts on-line

    mc [August 19, 2008 @ 4:22 am]

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