Wanna Go Offshore?

a self-organized series of talks, mapping workshops and experimental field trips across a range of Foreign Trade Zones

One such trip considers the pasts and futures of two adjacent parcels of land, currently agricultural fields that are slated for redevelopment. One is rezoned as a Foreign Trade Zone, intended to become a future Distribution Center, logistics and intermodal transportation hub; the other under redevelopment as a future Immigrant Detention Center. This excerpt is from a series of field trips exploring border regimes and stratified mobilities in/around metro Chicago. Here, I consider the governing logic that links Distribution Centers and Detention Centers as midstream warehousing in global just-in-time supply chains – applied to commodities and globalized labor.