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the boundary line between
the two republics shall commence in, three leagues from,
opposite the mouth of
After the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), (border) rivers stopped being rivers to become borderwalls or infraestructures of the Nation-State. This performative gesture invokes the specters of the borderlands, and their human and non-human communities, to question, to trouble, to jolt the narratives that naturalize border territories (dessert, rivers, oceans) like killing-machines of the nation-state.
[Sound piece in collaboration with Miguel Ángel Frausto Anchondo]
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