Mobility, flow, circa 1492
Mobility is most often associated with modernity, but just think about what was put in motion, what became possible, what ‘acted at a distance‘, when the Europeans discovered stuff like this in the Americas:
avocados, beans, brazil nuts, cashews, maize, manioc, papayas, peanuts, peppers, pineapples, potatoes, quinoa, sarsparilla, squashes, tomatoes & tobacco… coca, cochineal, curare, henequen, indigo, ipecac, quinine & rubber…
How would we map that?