TY - BOOK
T1 - Logistical Worlds: Infrastructure, Software, Labour. No. 3, Valparaiso
AU - Neilson, Brett
AU - Rossiter, Ned
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Known in Chile as los hombres verdes, the green men of Ventanas are former copper smelter workers whose skin is scarred with green lesions produced by chemical reactions. Located some sixty kilometres north of the port of ValparaÀso, Ventanas has been declared una zona de sacrificio due to pollution from heavy industry. The area’s general toxicity mirrors the purity of its copper exports, which travel primarily to China. Copper is essential to today’s digital capitalism and logistical technologies. Yet the reputed purity of the copper refined at Ventanas cannot fix the price of this commodity, which rather follows trading fluctuations on metal exchange markets. In the face of this financial uncertainty, data and logistics have emerged as the last hope to squeeze more from less in the Chilean copper industry.
AB - Known in Chile as los hombres verdes, the green men of Ventanas are former copper smelter workers whose skin is scarred with green lesions produced by chemical reactions. Located some sixty kilometres north of the port of ValparaÀso, Ventanas has been declared una zona de sacrificio due to pollution from heavy industry. The area’s general toxicity mirrors the purity of its copper exports, which travel primarily to China. Copper is essential to today’s digital capitalism and logistical technologies. Yet the reputed purity of the copper refined at Ventanas cannot fix the price of this commodity, which rather follows trading fluctuations on metal exchange markets. In the face of this financial uncertainty, data and logistics have emerged as the last hope to squeeze more from less in the Chilean copper industry.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:68866
UR - http://openhumanitiespress.org/books/download/Neilson-Rossiter_2021_Logistical-Worlds-Valparaiso.pdf
M3 - Authored Book
SN - 9781785421013
BT - Logistical Worlds: Infrastructure, Software, Labour. No. 3, Valparaiso
PB - Low Latencies
CY - U.K.
ER -