The infinitesimal of contemporary capitalism in the Brazilian documentary Monopoly

Abstract

With Monopoly, the Brazilian documentary by Miguel Antunes Ramos, we attempt to understand the mechanisms of the real estate market and its relationship with the production of desires, ways of life, and techniques of organizing cities. At the heart of contemporary capitalism, this productive dimension proceeds through micro operations, exposed in the film through speeches, displacements, and its montage. Miguel Ramos’ work is another productive force in relation with the city, which in its grazes and propositions reinvents the urban space – part of the subjective machine.