Obras by Alejandro Cartagena. Edition of 200. Published by Lugar Común
Obras is an archive project zine published for the XII FEMSA Bienal. Obras explores the need politicians have to document their use of public resources in infrastructure.
“Most of the conflicts over space have to do with fighting over a certain right to generate incomes, or simply put, the right to make business, in opposition to the right of well dwelling. This tension has been growing during the last 40 years, especially in those countries or cities where the government bases its policies on accumulation by dispossession, which, in the words of the geographer David Harvey, “has always been a profoundly geographical affair”. Accumulation by dispossession, as the geographer himself explains, is a verifiable practice when it comes to the privatization of public spaces, common resources –such as natural resources- or knowledge, community property, among others. He even labels neoliberalism as a “creative destruction” in the sense that its predominance is based on its ability to destroy, with the support of the government, in order to create new businesses. Deep down, it is the same logic used in war economy, but instead it uses our cities as battlefields.” Text by Ximena Peredo
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Other books available: Carpoolers, A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption, Suburbia Mexicana
