Copper Geographies - Softcover

Ignacio Acosta

 
9788417047566: Copper Geographies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8417047565 ISBN 13: 9788417047566
Publisher: RM Verlag, 2018

Synopsis

It presents a series of legwork explorations of geographically disparate landscapes historically connected by copper. It maps sites of transformation along the production network and commodity chain, documenting the mutation and transformation of copper from raw material to capital; through ore, smelted commodity, stock market exchanged value, assembled material and waste. It discloses theuneven spatial conditions in which the material circulates by connecting the ecologies of resource exploitation in the Atacama Desert with the global centersof consumption and trade in Britain, and by making visible its return, hidden in manufactured goods, to the territories it originated from.

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It presents a series of legwork explorations of geographically disparate landscapes historically connected by copper. It maps sites of transformation along the production network and commodity chain, documenting the mutation and transformation of copper from raw material to capital; through ore, smelted commodity, stock market exchanged value, assembled material and waste. It discloses theuneven spatial conditions in which the material circulates by connecting the ecologies of resource exploitation in the Atacama Desert with the global centersof consumption and trade in Britain, and by making visible its return, hidden in manufactured goods, to the territories it originated from.

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Publisher
RM Verlag
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8417047565
ISBN 13 
9788417047566
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192