The objective is to rethink the production of the borderland as a dispositive for capturing spaces and subjectivities, conferring special attention to the different geographies that are put in relation to carry out the capture itself.
Paper long abstract
The border cannot be anymore read as a line where the state sovereignty limit is established. On the contrary, the border has to be reconceptualized as a complex knowledge-power dispositive that is characterized by its movement and elasticity. In a socio-political context marked by the various hybridizations that are unleashed between the neoliberal, the security and the neocolonial, the border emerges as a determining element in the current reconfiguration of the social in what refers to the ordering of mobility regimes.
From this approach it is intended to reconceptualize the border from a double dimension. The first refers to the complex topology of the border; through this idea we seek to move away from a dichotomous vision that reproduces in one way or another the inside-outside distinction. The topology works as an intricate fold of spaces that gives rise to a complex network of geographies put in connection. The second dimension delves into the idea that the border is a heterogeneous dispositive to capture spaces and subjectivities territorializing what should be the practice of spaces and mobility.
Consequently, when these two dimensions are put in relation, what emerges is a vision of the border as a martial and securitarian governmentality that alters in a dynamic and contingent way its complex topology, its increasingly militarized techno-network, to exercise a capture in which unfolds a mutation of the war.