The world appears contradictory. On the one hand, we see a resurgence of nationalism, new independence movements, and reaffirmations of identity across a world that, on the other hand, is more uniform than ever: capitalism has managed to fully expand across the globe.

Neoliberal globalization leads to a technocratic homogenization of semiotics and symbols based on the production process. This has resulted in the loss of the State's capacity to control, organize, and culturally subsume its society. It has also allowed diverse forms of resistance and reevaluations of sociocultural identities to project themselves more forcefully on the international stage.

This leads us to reflect on the power dynamics that construct the representation of the State in individuals. The State will have a geographical, bureaucratic, and administrative exterior/interior divided by a sharp line on the map, where national discourse manifests itself as an articulation of mechanisms that link representations in order to maintain a governmentality that, on the one hand, contributes to legitimizing and securing the interests of the dominant class within the nation-state and, on the other hand, seeks the exclusion of others to guide the actions of the population within a politically delimited territorial polygon. The "nation" is crafted to provoke cultural cohesion.

On the Space of Identity: The Fabrication of the Nation and the Geopolitics of its Contradiction is the fifth publication of the Seminar on Spatiality, Domination, and Violence. It focuses on studying the relationship between culture, the dialectic of identity/otherness, and the production of the space that capitalism requires to exist.