Fleshworks. Opacity is noise in rural spaces

Borgo Mezzanone is nestled within a rural space shaped by extractive rural economies (tomato cultivation) based on cheap migrant labor. The relationships between the settlement with the surrounding territory are defined by sequences of fields and roads that become, as you approach the settlement, more and more ‘residual’ and hard to cross. Spaces become increasingly uncanny, opaque, paved with the ‘rejection’ of the presence of the village by the local society, as well as with a lot of waste and debris. Through this article, we unpack how this space can be interpreted as a sequence of uncertain lines superimposed on each other. As if it were the coast of an island. This coast is a threshold, a contact zone marked by incessant negotiations, a figure of proximity, divisions and endless movements: an opaque membrane where one can observe the possible relationships within the living and social and rural ecologies of this particular context in which different populations coexist.