ABSTRACT
In Sleep Dealer (2008), Lunar Braceros 2125–2148, and Architect Fernando Romero’s ideal border city, Santa Teresa, the future is the border. Taken together, these texts present a future of integrated networks and new forms of human interaction and settlement. The border is paradoxically the site of the past of U.S. manufacturing and the future of neoliberal capitalism. And the outcomes of capitalism for the marginalized and migrant communities are catastrophes of various kinds, ones that persist without remedy in the present and for which these texts imagine a different possible future.
