Undocumented: Life at the Edge of Nothing

At a time when life becomes exhausted, organizing political structures has to be reimagined. With the escalation of human induced climate change, migration for survival becomes an imperative. In this book titled Undocumented: Life at the Edge of Nothing, Ismael traces significant temporal structures that have organized life for the past five centuries. He argues that to avoid the exhaustion of lives, we need to reimagine time beyond the constraints of documentation practices. From friars to self-emancipated liberators, resistance from Originary nations to the invasion of Spanish conquistadors, the life of those who survive to the unbearable deaths of those who could not through migration in his family genealogy, Undocumented is a meditation for the possibilities of augmenting pluriversal futures that cultivate life.