ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with a set of dystopian imaginaries derived from Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008), a science fiction film mostly set in Tijuana, ‘the biggest frontier city in the world’, on the Mexican side of a future sealed border with the United States. It examines how forms of attachment and detachment – or anxieties of ‘tachment’ – are central not only to interpersonal relationships, but also to the interfaces between people and global economic and political systems across the North–South divide.
