Logistical Worlds 3: Valparaíso
<p>Known in Chile as <i>los hombres verdes</i>, 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 <i>una zona de sacrificio</i> 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.</p>
Editors: Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter
Contributors: 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
Designer: Paul Mylecharane, Kim Mumm Hansen, Public Office
Series Editor: Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter
Part of: Open Humanities Press
ISBN: 9781785421006