Abstract

The article outlines a new aspect in a long-standing inquiry into the specifically postcolonial regime of capitalist accumulation and the forms of integration it gives rise to, by way of the techniques of primitive accumulation, and into the concomitant modes of intervention on the part of the State, as agent of a « passive revolution ». To this end, it first examines the new dialectical meanings taken on by the question of transition, under the various forms assumed by the process as a result of a postcolonial situation that is itself heterogeneous. The article goes on to adopt the hypothesis put forward by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson of « the border as a method », in order to examine a number of significant features evident in the spatial recomposition provoked by postcolonial capitalism, by way of the combination between various methods of zoning and the creation of corridors in the configuration of the spaces of capitalistic circulation, in line with a process whose biopolitical implications in the postcolony are also emphasized here.