Cyber-Hobos, Stateless War Machines, and Diasporic Rhizomes Mapping Milieus of Differential Speed in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico (2017-2023)

Building on interventions by critical disaster, mobility, and island scholars and responding to recent calls for the adoption of a kinetic paradigm, the study seeks to shed light on the Janus-faced nature of not only disparate hypermobile networks and the inequalities they face but also on the fluid make-up of the Puerto Rican Phantom State in an era of disaster acceleration by systematically tracing and analyzing their kinetic properties as well as those of the liminal kinopolitical spaces.,