Logistical Worlds: Infrastructure, Software, Labour. No. 3, Valparaiso

Brett Neilson; Ned Rossiter

Logistical Worlds: Infrastructure, Software, Labour. No. 3, Valparaiso

Brett Neilson (Editor)
, Ned Rossiter (Editor)

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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 ValparaÃ€Âso, 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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Low Latencies
Number of pages	112
ISBN (Print)	9781785421013
Publication status	Published - 2021

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