“In our forthcoming book, Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor, we argue that borders remain central to the heterogeneous organization of space and time under global capital. Understanding the border in a wide sense, by no means limited to the conventional geopolitical line, include for instance urban divides and the limits surrounding ‘special economic zones,’ provides a means of grasping the changing composition and diversification of labor. … The current proliferation of borders appears as intimately related to the expansion of what we call the ‘frontiers of capital.’ This term, used by the anthropologists Fisher and Downey, registers capital’s drive to continuously open up new territories (in both the literal and the figurative sense) to re-establish the conditions for accumulation. It is precisely this moment of ‘opening up’ that interrupts the linear temporality of transition or development and calls for the repetition of ‘so-called’ primitive or originary accumulation, challenging existing boundaries and disrupting established social relationships. Such an opening cannot be separated from new bordering processes, from the differentiating and hierarchizing effects of borders, and from the articulation of heterogeneous spaces and regimes that borders facilitate.”
“Extraction, Logistics, Finance: Global Crisis and the Politics of Operations” Radical Philosophy, no. 178 (2013): 8-9
