position
The Transborder Immigrant Tool is designed for wayfinding, dowsing, guiding the user to water. It is the end point of a much longer path into this country. But that path is not a one-way arrow, the inevitable march toward immigration and naturalization but instead, as David G. Gutierrez and Pierrete Honagneu-Sotelo point out, part of a transational circuit that includes not only their circular path into and out of the country but also the pathways of capital into Mexico from the United States via corporations. Drawing on the work of Roger Rouse, they explain such has been the way in the "more ore less permanent circulation of migrants and immigrants....central dynamics of capital expansion since at least the late eighteenth century" (3).
This set of pages focuses on the (global) position of the imagined user engaging with the Transborder Immigrant Tool. The code performs the following functions:
- Importing the GPS data on the water stations
- Locating the user
- Listening for a nearby water station
- Wayfinding to that water station
Of course, if at any point the conditions are not met, for example, if the GPS data for the stations has reached its expiration date, the system offers alerts, moves into alternate modes, or waits. However, though the code may move into an idling state, the user who has been the subject of this code throughout this deployment may very well face certain and imminent death. To read the code is to also know this possibility even if this traveler, this immigrant, seems to be absent from the code itself.
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