ABSTRACT

Building on Deleuze and Guattari’s theorising of transversality, this paper offers an ethnography of life-with-oil in the city of Esmeraldas, home to Ecuador’s largest oil refinery complex and a chokepoint of the country’s oil export logistics. The paper elaborates how desires, struggles, and wagers that shape everyday life in the city, which appear peripheral to the formal circulation of oil, are in fact constitutive of how hydrocarbon capital is enacted. Transversal desires move in and out of the logistics of oil flow, sometimes hosting and facilitating, other times choking the dynamics of said flow. I rely on the aesthetics and potentialities of the ethnographic ground to get at the disruptions, ruptures, and shifts through which transversal flows become part of the logistics of oil flow in Esmeraldas, and to remain attentive to what is obscured in master narratives about oil in capitalist systems.

摘要

基于德勒兹和加塔里的横向理论，本文提供了埃斯梅拉达斯市的石油生活民族志，埃斯梅拉达斯是厄瓜多尔最大的炼油厂所在地，也是该国石油出口物流的要塞。该论文详细阐述了塑造城市日常生活的欲望、斗争和赌注，这些似乎是石油正式流通的外围，但实际上却构成了碳氢化合物资本的运作方式。横向欲望在石油流动的物流中进进出出，有时是主持和促进，有时是阻碍所述流动的动力。我依靠民族志基础的美学和潜力来了解横向流动成为埃斯梅拉达斯石油流动物流的一部分的中断、破裂和转变，