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As during the American conquest of the West, a “great frontier” moves forward. Aiming at the whole world and at all the spheres of our lives, this frontier results not only in the loss of the liveable areas but also of our ability to live. This is what’s at stake in the fights against extractivism—the industrial exploitation of nature—, as in all the concrete struggles conducted to preserve “spaces for being”: by defending the margins and interstices not yet entirely annexed by the “frontier,” by ensuring that these margins and interstices escape, even partially and temporarily, from these capture systems, they preserve, at the least, possibilities of life.