ruins and rubble are, like all material objects, unfinished products, processes in the making that are always subject to further deterioration and are therefore“in a fluid state of material beco ming”. The wrecks created in the 1800s on the Bermejo (Northwest Argentina) gradually disintegrated as a visible physical presence, even if remains of metal planks are still buried underground in Gorriti and elsewhere in the Argentinian Chaco. This is a material disintegration that I also witnessed elsewhere during my fieldwork at places where elderly residents remembered nodes of rubble that are no longer visible.

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No space vanishes utterly, leaving no trace, some places do vanish utterly, at least in the sense that their debris can no longer be apprehended at a visual or tactile level. But places and objects can vanish while leaving traces of a different nature.

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