Logistical Worlds 3: Valparaíso [electronic resource].

Open Humanities Press 2021

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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 Valparaíso, 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.
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Capital movements
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Data mining
Culture and globalization
Natural Resources
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Brett Neilson
Ned Rossiter
Alejandro Donaire Palma
Jorge Budrovich-Sáez
José Llano Loyola
Paulina E. Varas
Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela
Valentina Leal
Lucas Cifuentes
Jamie Allen
Giorgio Grappi
Katheryn M. Detwiler
Orit Halpern
Paul Mylecharane
Kim Mumm Hansen
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